Volume 42, Number 13 · August 10, 1995
In China's Gulag
By Jonathan D. Spence
Red in Tooth and Claw: Twenty-six Years in Communist Chinese Prisons
by Pu Ning
Grove, 228 pp., $21.00
Bitter Winds: A Memoir of My Years in China's Gulag
by Harry Wu, by Carolyn Wakeman
Wiley/a Robert L. Bernstein book, 290 pp., $22.95
Blood Red Sunset: A Memoir of the Chinese Cultural Revolution
by Ma Bo, translated by Howard Goldblatt
Viking, 371 pp., $24.95
Grass Soup
by Zhang Xianliang, translated by Martha Avery
Godine, 247 pp., $21.95
Near the end of The Gulag Archipelago, Solzhenitsyn includes a chapter he calls 'The Muses in Gulag.' Most of the chapter describes the absurdity and uselessness of the Communist Party's Cultural and Educational Section, but he also briefly reflects on the relationship between life in the Soviet penal colonies and the near impossibility of creating prose literature about those same camps. As Solzhenitsyn puts it,
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