One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich (Everyman's Library (Cloth))
Editorial Reviews
Amazon.com
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.
Review
"One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich yields, more than anything else, a beautiful sense of its author as a Chekhovian figure: simple, free of literary affectation, wholly serious."--The New Republic
--This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich (Everyman's Library (Cloth))
One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich (Everyman's Library (Cloth)),Alexander Solzhenitsyn,Everyman's Library,0679444645,Classics,Communism,Fiction,Fiction - General,Forced labor,Literary,Solzhenitsyn, Aleksandr - Prose & Criticism,Soviet Union,Fiction / Literary
Book Updates:
Recommended Books