One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich
A Fiction, Historical, Classics book. Freedom meant one thing to himhome.But they wouldn't let him go home. Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, One Day In The...
In the madness of World War II, a dutiful Russian soldier is wrongfully convicted of treason and sentenced to ten years in a Siberian labor camp. So begins the masterpiece of modern Russian fiction, the harrowing account of a man who has conceded to all things evil with dignity and strength.First published in 1962, it is considered one of the most significant works ever to emerge from Soviet Russia. Illuminating a dark chapter in Russian history, One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich is at once a graphic picture of work camp life and a moving tribute to man's will to prevail over relentless dehumanization, told by "a literary genius whose talent matches that of Dostoyevsky, Turgenev, Tolstoy [and] Gorky" (Harrison Salisbury, The New York Times).
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- Pages: 160 pages
- ISBN: 9780451523105 / 451523105
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Freedom meant one thing to himhome.But they wouldn't let him go home. Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, One Day In The Life Of Ivan Denisovich // There is a larger lesson here, because the book encompasses not just the lives of prisoners in a Soviet prison camp, but every one of us. Shukhov squeezes everything he can out of a mouthful of soup or a bite of breadSo frozen that he cant even feel his feet, he trowels cement and lays a cinder block wall with care and patienceShukhov takes pride in his work. In fact, even though he is starving, he can barely tear himself away at the end of the long day to go eat. He cares about his work and in that way he remains a man. Isnt this kind of pride and gratitude... Work, he said, was a first-rate medicine for any illness. Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, One Day In The Life Of Ivan Denisovich //
Dear Mr. Solzhenitsyn,I am not a Russian scholar, not even in the armchair variety. But you have done something magical in ONE DAY IN THE LIFE OF IVAN DENISOVICH that eclipsed this reader's ignorance: you have transmuted what it was like to live a life day-in and day-out in much the same fashion. Think about it: Morning, the same as... it's all about perspective. yeah, ivan denisovich shukov is in a soviet labor camp, where he is freezing and has to work at bullshit tasks and is being punished for something he didn't even get to do (because being a spy is cool, while being punished for being a spy when you didn't even get to have the fun of being a spy is lame), and... My copy of the 1963 novel that won Alexander Solzhenitsyn the Nobel Prize is thirty-six years old, and it looks it--not just because it is dog-eared and the pages tinged yellow, but because the jacket copy is thick with Cold War fever. This copy, for example, is "THE COMPLETE, UNEXPURGATED TRANSLATION BY RONALD HINGLEY AND MAX HAYWARD."...
