One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich

Release on 2005-03-16 | by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

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 documents to have emerged from the Soviet Union and confirms Solzhenitsyn's ...

Author: Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
ISBN: 9781466839410
Category: Fiction
Page: 200
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One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich

The only English translation authorized by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn First published in the Soviet journal Novy Mir in 1962, One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich stands as a classic of contemporary literature. The story of labor-camp inmate Ivan Denisovich Shukhov, it graphically describes his struggle to maintain his dignity in the face of communist oppression. 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 documents to have emerged from the Soviet Union and confirms Solzhenitsyn's stature as "a literary genius whose talent matches that of Dosotevsky, Turgenev, Tolstoy"--Harrison Salisbury This unexpurgated 1991 translation by H. T. Willetts is the only authorized edition available and fully captures the power and beauty of the original Russian.

Language: en
Pages: 200

One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich

Authors: Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Categories: Fiction

Type: BOOK - Published: 2005-03-16 - Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux

Language: en
Pages: 128

One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich

Authors: Alexis Klimoff

Categories: Literary Criticism

Type: BOOK - Published: 1997 - Publisher: Northwestern University Press

"Alexis Klimoff's companion to Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn's One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich includes a general introduction discussing the work in the context of Solzhenitsyn's oeuvre as well as its place within the Russian literary tradition. Also included are primary sources and other background materials, as well as discussions

Language: en
Pages: 181

One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich

Authors: Aleksandr Isaevich Solzhenit︠s︡yn, Yevgeny Yevtushenko, Eric Bogosian

Categories: Fiction

Type: BOOK - Published: 2009 - Publisher: New Amer Library

Ivan Denisovich faces daily hardships and struggles to maintain his humanity while being a prisoner in a Stalinist labor camp.

Language: en
Pages: 234

One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich

Authors: Aleksandr Isaevich Solzhenitsyn

Categories: Fiction

Type: BOOK - Published: 1963 - Publisher: Greenwood-Heinemann Publishing

A masterpiece of modern Russian fiction, this novel is one of the most significant and outspoken literary documents ever to come out of Soviet Russia. A brutal depiction of life in a Stalinist camp and a moving tribute to man's triumph of will over relentless dehumanization, this is Solzhenitsyn's first

Language: en
Pages: 114

Solzhenitsyn's One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich

Authors: Robert Porter

Categories: Foreign Language Study

Type: BOOK - Published: 1997 - Publisher: Bristol Classical Press

A study of the work which won Solzhenitsyn the Nobel Prize in 1970. It is an account of a day in the life of a barely literate Russian peasant in one of Stalin's labour camps. The study gauges the political and literary impact of the book and examines its universal,