One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich
Solzhenitsyn depicts the fate of millions of Russians under Stalin in a world of brutality, hard manual labour and freezing cold in a Siberian labour camp where men stuggle to survive both the terrible rigours of nature and the inhumanity of the system that defines their conditions.
Solzhenitsyn depicts the fate of millions of Russians under Stalin in a world of brutality, hard manual labour and freezing cold in a Siberian labour camp where men stuggle to survive both the terrible rigours of nature and the inhumanity of the system that defines their conditions.
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780140184426 (0140184422)
Publish date: November 29th 1990
Publisher: Penguin
Pages no: 143
Edition language: English
Category:
Classics,
Novels,
Academic,
School,
Literature,
Cultural,
Historical Fiction,
Classic Literature,
20th Century,
Politics,
Russia,
Russian Literature
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...
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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!
This is the second time that I've read One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich in less than a month. I first read the translation done by Max Hayward and Ronald Hingley, and found something lacking in the story, perhaps due to the translation. After reading this translation by H.T. Willetts, I believ...
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