One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich
The Gulag, the Stalinist labour camps to which millions of Russians were condemned for political deviation, has become a household word in the West. This is due to the accounts of many witnesses, but most of all to the publication, in 1962, of One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich, the novel...
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The Gulag, the Stalinist labour camps to which millions of Russians were condemned for political deviation, has become a household word in the West. This is due to the accounts of many witnesses, but most of all to the publication, in 1962, of One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich, the novel that first brought Aleksandr Sozhenitsyn to public attention. His story of one typical day in a labour camp as experienced by prisoner Ivan Denisovich Shukhov is sufficient to describe the entire world of the Soviet camps. Translated from the Russian by H. T. Willetts
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780099449270 (0099449277)
ASIN: 0099449277
Publish date: 2003-07-01
Publisher: Vintage/Ebury (a Division of Random
Pages no: 176
Edition language: English
Category:
Classics,
Non Fiction,
History,
Academic,
School,
Literature,
Cultural,
Read For School,
Classic Literature,
Russia,
Russian Literature,
Historical
Foreword--One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich
An excellent and important piece of work. The unflinching descriptions of the petty squabbles and competitiveness between the prison camp inmates are especially heart-wrenching: in a system like this, survival is, in fact, survival of the craftiest and fittest, suggesting that humans are capable of ...
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