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Casa Matrionei, una dintre cele mai emotionante proze ale lui Soljenitin, este povestea unui profesor de matematica exilat in propria patrie, care porneste in cautarea Rusiei profunde, idealizate, acea Rusie inca patrunse de fiorul crestin pe care regimul stalinist n-a reusit sa-l inabuse. La capatul calatoriei sale, profesorul gaseste adapost in izba Matrionei, o femeie simpla, gratie careia descoperim noi fatete ale sufletului slav. In Incident la gara din Kocetovka, adjunctul unui sef de gara dintr-o localitate uitata de lume, care a imbratisat cu entuziasm si candoare cauza comunista, este nevoit sa hotarasca soarta unui om si cade prada scepticismului, rusinii si indoielilor. Cele doua povestiri sunt printre ultimele texte pe care Alexandr Soljenitin le-a publicat in Rusia comunista, fiind redus la tacere de actiunea represiva a sistemului totalitar.
109 pages
First published January 1, 1963

["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>"As long as there is fresh air to breathe under an apple tree after a shower, we may survive a little longer." (243)I had already read two of the longer pieces in this collection—Matryona's House and An Incident at Krechetovka Station. The other stories in this collection, especially the last, newly restored What a Pity, were well worth reading, as were the various prose poems. Tinged with nostalgia and suffused with lamentation, regularly revolving around the tension between good and evil, Solzhenitsyn's work is often bleak—and just as often beautiful.