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"[One day] in the first springtime, I woke up with the memorial of the woman I'd once identified, Sophie. It was an extremely vibrant half-dream, half-thought, and all a sudden I understood that hers was a tale I'd to inform." That very evening, William Styron started producing the initial section of Sophieis Choice.    First printed in 1979, this ambitious and complicated book starts with Stingo, a southerner, journeying north in 1947 to be always a writer. It brings us into his rational and emotional entanglement with his neighbors in a Brooklyn rooming house: Nathan, a tortured, amazing Jew, and his partner, Sophie, an attractive Polish girl whose arm contains the harsh tattoo of the concentration camp,and whose past is covered with death that she alone survived.   "Sophie's Choice is just a passionate, courageous book,a philosophical story about the most significant topic of the twentieth-century," said author and critic John Gardner in The Brand New York Times Book Review. "One of the reason why Styron works so well in Sophie's Choice is that, like Shakespeare (I believe the assessment isn't too great), Styron understands just how to cut-away in the night of his substance, so that when he becomes to it again it hits with growing pressure,.Sophie's Choice is just a thriller of the greatest order, even more fascinating for the very fact that the dim, dismal secrets we're discovering one by one--working through lies and horrible misconceptions like a hand groping for a gold nugget in a rattlesnake's home--might be genuine secrets of history and our very own individual nature."The Current Library has played a substantial role in American cultural life for the greater section of a hundred years.