one day in the life of ivan denisovich by aleksandr solzhenitsyn

First published (in censored form) in the Soviet journal Novy Mir in 1962, it is the story of labor-camp inmate Ivan Denisovich Shukhov as he struggles to maintain his dignity in the face of communist oppression. One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich is an undisputed classic of contemporary literature.

Exiled in 1974, he returned to Russia after the dissolution of the Soviet Union and died in Moscow in 2008.For the centenary of the Russian Revolution, a new edition of the Russian Nobel Prize-winning author's most accessible novel He served as a decorated commander in the Red Army during World War II before he was arrested for anti-Soviet propaganda and sentenced to eight years in a labor camp, where he drew inspiration for his controversial novel One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich. ' One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich yields, more than anything else, a beautiful sense of its author as a Chekhovian figure: simple, free of literary affectation, wholly serious.' - The New RepublicĪbout the Author Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn was a Russian novelist, historian, and winner of the 1970 Nobel Prize in Literature. Willetts is the only translation authorized by Solzhenitsyn himself.

This unexpurgated, widely acclaimed translation by H. Above all, One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich establishes Solzhenitsyn's stature as 'a literary genius whose talent matches that of Dostoevsky, Turgenev, Tolstoy' (Harrison Salisbury, The New York Times). The first of Solzhenitsyn's novels to be published, it forced both the Soviet Union and the West to confront the Soviet's human rights record, and the novel was specifically mentioned in the presentation speech when Solzhenitsyn was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1970.

An unforgettable portrait of the entire world of Stalin's forced-work camps, One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich is one of the most extraordinary literary works to have emerged from the Soviet Union. On every page of this graphic depiction of Ivan Denisovich's struggles, the pain of Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn's own decade-long experience in the gulag is apparent-which makes its ultimate tribute to one man's will to triumph over relentless dehumanization all the more moving. About the Book Ivan Denisovich is a prisoner in a Stalinist labor camp who faces daily hardships and struggles to maintain his humanity.įor the centenary of the Russian Revolution, a new edition of the Russian Nobel Prize-winning author's most accessible novel One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich is an undisputed classic of contemporary literature.

One day in the life of ivan denisovich by aleksandr solzhenitsyn