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One day in the life of Ivan Denisovich Alexander Solzhenitsyn ; translated from the Russian by H.T. Willetts ; with an introduction by John Bayley.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextLanguage: English Original language: Russian Series: Everyman's library ; 219Publication details: New York : Knopf, 1995.Description: xxvii, 159 p. 22/13/1,6 cm HardboundISBN:
  • 9781857152197
Other title:
  • Odin denʹ Ivana Denisovicha (1962)
Subject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:
  • 891.73/44 20
LOC classification:
  • PG3488.O4 O313 1995
Online resources: Summary: One of the most extraordinary literary documents to have emerged from the Soviet Union, this is the story of labor camp inmate Ivan Denisovich Shukhov and his struggle to maintain his dignity in the face of Communist oppression. Based on the author's own experience in the gulags, where he spent nearly a decade as punishment for making derogatory remarks against Stalin, the novel is an unforgettable portrait of the entire world of Stalin's forced work camps. An instant classic upon publication in 1962, it confirmed Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn's international stature as "a literary genius whose talent matches that of Dostoevsky, Turgenev, Tolstoy" (Harrison Salisbury).
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One of the most extraordinary literary documents to have emerged from the Soviet Union, this is the story of labor camp inmate Ivan Denisovich Shukhov and his struggle to maintain his dignity in the face of Communist oppression. Based on the author's own experience in the gulags, where he spent nearly a decade as punishment for making derogatory remarks against Stalin, the novel is an unforgettable portrait of the entire world of Stalin's forced work camps. An instant classic upon publication in 1962, it confirmed Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn's international stature as "a literary genius whose talent matches that of Dostoevsky, Turgenev, Tolstoy" (Harrison Salisbury).

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