Tropic of Cancer
by:
Henry Miller (author)
The 'gulag archipelago' of Russian labour camps, established by Stalin as the lifelong prisons of political dissidents, is well established as a horrific symbol of totalitarian repression. So is the compelling genre of 'prison-camp literature', with its privations, its human dregs, the catalogue...
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The 'gulag archipelago' of Russian labour camps, established by Stalin as the lifelong prisons of political dissidents, is well established as a horrific symbol of totalitarian repression. So is the compelling genre of 'prison-camp literature', with its privations, its human dregs, the catalogue of unspeakable behaviour. This is the book that started it all in 1962, that brought life in the prison camps to the world's attention and made an overnight hero of Alexsandr Solzhenitsyn. In one prisoner, Ivan Denisovich Shukhov, and one single day of his long sentence, we find a universal Everyman, struggling to make sense of the hand that Fate has dealt him - and determined to survive.
Part of The Independent's 'Banned Books' series given away with the newspaper in 2007.
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Format: hardcover
ISBN:
9771753312009
ASIN: B003I5L0CG
Publisher: Harper Perennial
Pages no: 276
Edition language: English
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Oceniam, choć jej nie skończyłam. Zostało mi dokładnie 69 stron (tak, policzyłam ;p), ale coś czuję, że nie znajdę w sobie siły, by dotrzeć do końca. Zwłaszcza, że mam przed sobą perspektywę innych-ciekawszych pozycji. Ta po prostu mnie znudziła. Opisy stosunków z kobietami są obleśnie i wulgarne, a...
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