Shukhov gazed at the ceiling in silence. Now he didn’t know either whether he wanted freedom or not. At first he’d longed for it. Every night he’d counted the days of his stretch – how many had passed, how many were coming. And then he’d grown bored with counting. And then it became clear that men l...
bookshelves: winter-20152016, nobel-laureate, published-1971, translation, wwi, lit-richer, lit-richer-jan-2016, play-dramatisation Recommended to Bettie☯ by: Isca Silurum Recommended for: BBC Radio Listeners Read from January 24 to 25, 2016 http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b04fyd8hDescription:...
Really good flow, though the translation I had used really uneven tone, which may have been on purpose. A lot of the insults weren't appropriate anymore, so it sort of lacked a true abusive feeling. Made me depressed though!
When your thought is "Eh, heard it before; this is just like [b:Night,|1617|Night (The Night Trilogy, #1)|Elie Wiesel|http://d.gr-assets.com/books/1364599916s/1617.jpg|265616]" you may be reading too many depressing books.
It's an interesting book. It uses a short terse style, like a Russian Hemingway, which is the way to write about these things. The book is meant to record an absolutely typical day in a soviet gulag and show the indominatability of the human spirit, amongst suffering, inhumanity and tyranny. It d...
Solzhenitsyn's books - be it fiction or non-fiction - never ceases to amaze me. I am glad that now I have finished reading almost half of his major works. And according to my expectations, 'One Day' was as captivating as his other works (Though 'Gulag Archipelago' is incomparable and a massive work)...
Read this in high school and it was one of the most painful experiences of my life. Ten pages about him eating bread. Ten. I don't think I have the temperament for Russian Lit.
Mostly read under several duvets, wearing a woolly hat, with the heating on full whack, I didn’t feel the cold of Siberia, but felt that if I sacrificed any of these three luxuries I surely would freeze to death. A personal yet unemotional account of how to survive detention in a Soviet gulag, conde...
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