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 classi...
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Number of Pages: 182
ISBN: 0374529523
ISBN-13: 9780374529529
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Thomas J Bevan @thomasjbevan1
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Oct 17, 2020
- Curated in Recommended Short Fiction/ Novellas
The title says it all. This is a novella about a day in the life of a man in a Gulag, the first such story to be openly distributed in the Soviet Union. This is lean, powerful, humane and arguably features some of Solzhenitsyn’s tightest and most controlled prose. You can read it in a few hours. And you should.