One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich
by Alexander Solzhenitsyn
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Author: Alexander SolzhenitsynEdition: Paperback
Audio: Russian (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 1963-02-01
ISBN: 0451061292
Publisher: Signet
Summary of One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich
One of a series of top-quality fiction for schools, this is Solzhenitsyn's picture of human life in inhuman conditions. Written from personal experience, it describes in detail the day of a prisoner in a Soviet labour camp.Solzhenitsyn's first book, this economical, relentless novel is one of the most forceful artistic indictments of political oppression in the Stalin-era Soviet Union. The simply told story of a typical, grueling day of the titular character's life in a labor camp in Siberia, is a modern classic of Russian literature and quickly cemented Solzhenitsyn's international reputation upon publication in 1962. It is painfully apparent that Solzhenitsyn himself spent time in the gulags--he was imprisoned for nearly a decade as punishment for making derogatory statements about Stalin in a letter to a friend.
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