“Is There a Soul More Lost than Mine?” the Story of a Dizzying Book (Loved by David Bowie)

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It seemed, with due distance, like a new 'Pasternak case'. In 1966, through the samizdat mechanism, the manuscript of a woman, Evgenija Ginzburg, arrived at Mondadori: it recounts a very harsh experience of imprisonment in the Gulag. The book, although in diary form, is written in a wise, savory, and ferocious manner. The memoir escapes the clutches of concentration camp literature, rising to the status of a political accusation, an abysmal inve…