bookshelves: re-read, published-1962, slavic, re-visit-2015, film-only, winter-20142015, nobel-laureate, prisoner Recommended for: Laura, Wanda et al Read from January 01, 1989 to February 07, 2015, read count: 2 Re-visit 2015 via film: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YqG1u...Trivia from wiki: ...
Dear reader,Greetings! My name is Ivan Denisovich. I was wrongfully imprisoned by our "beloved leader" Josef Stalin for a crime I did not commit. But then, in my country at that time, ANYONE can be thrown into prison for ANYTHING or worse, NOTHING. And I was not alone. There were thousands, even mil...
Cold. Very cold. And as a reader, you are visiting a prison camp in Siberia for only one day. A lifetime or multi-year sentence is hard to process.Shukhov (Ivan) has been sentenced to a labor camp in Siberia under Stalinist rule. It's a cold, brutal and dark existence. He's a practical man and doesn...
This book is one of those marvelous ones that manages to do many things at once. You can be depressed and uplifted simultaneously. The simplicity of the narration and the ordinary-ness of this society that Ivan Denisovich Shukhov finds himself a member of is all the more chilling for it, but also wa...
My translation had an odd moment towards the end where the writing switches into first person every couple of sentences. Very odd! But apart from that this is magic writing. It is distressing and freezing and remarkable. Solzhenitsyn makes minutiae vital and revealing.
This novel, as it says in the title, is all about one day in the life of Ivan Denisovich, sentenced to ten years in the gulag for escaping from a German camp (they assumed he was a spy). Solzhenitsyn follows him from waking up to going to sleep through the harsh working conditions, bribes and other...
First Broadcast on BBC Radio 4 on 6th June 2003. Rebroadcast on 7th September 2008 to mark Solzhenitsyn's death.Recorded from BBC Listen Again with Audiob Hijack Pro.One Day In The Life Of Ivan Denisovich was a literary earthquake with profound political implications. At the height of the Cold War, ...
Growing up, this was one of my favorite books. People always think it's weird once I say that, and I agree, it is weird. But I grew up in a unusual household that appreciated all forms of Soviet literary dissonance. My father was a big fan of any text that criticized Communism down to the very last ...
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