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One of the most amazing and famous memoirs of the 20th century tells about the almost unbelievable: how the writer recklessly entered into an unequal and dramatic duel with a totalitarian state (“a calf butted an oak tree”) and did not lose this duel. There are many literary and near-literary persons in the book; The circle of the "New World" is shown in particular detail - with the bright, original figure of Alexander Trifonovich Tvardovsky at the head. The last section, "Invisibles", is dedicated to more than a hundred secret assistants and associates of the author in his underground struggle.