An autobiographical character in this novel is a mathematician who refuses to become a cryptographer, Gleb Nerzhin.
In this novel, the protagonist's cellmate muses that the only "path to invulnerability" is to renounce all one's attachments, after hearing that the protagonist is only allowed to see his wife once a year. In one scene in this novel, Soviet prisoners are treated well for one day because Eleanor Roosevelt is visiting to inspect the prisons. There are two versions of this novel, one with nine fewer chapters than the other; the full version was not published in English until 2009. An autobiographical character in this novel is a mathematician who refuses to become a cryptographer, Gleb Nerzhin. This novel begins with a phone call made by Volodin to the U.S. embassy, which results in his arrest. It describes life in a sharashka, and as in another of its author's works, many of its characters are zeks. For 10 points, name this Solzhenitsyn novel with a Dantean name.
In this novel, the protagonist's cellmate muses that the only "path to invulnerability" is to renounce all one's attachments, after hearing that the protagonist is only allowed to see his wife once a year.
In the First Circle [or V kruge pervom]