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Loading... One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich (Signet Books)by Alexander Solzhenitsyn
Amazon.com (ISBN 0374529523, Paperback)Solzhenitsyn's first book, this economical, relentless novel is one of the most forceful artistic indictments of political oppression in the Stalin-era Soviet Union. The simply told story of a typical, grueling day of the titular character's life in a labor camp in Siberia, is a modern classic of Russian literature and quickly cemented Solzhenitsyn's international reputation upon publication in 1962. It is painfully apparent that Solzhenitsyn himself spent time in the gulags--he was imprisoned for nearly a decade as punishment for making derogatory statements about Stalin in a letter to a friend.Amazon.com Product Description (ISBN 0451527097, Paperback)(Book Jacket Status: Jacketed)One of the most chilling novels about the oppression of totalitarian regimes and the first to open Western eyes to the terrors of Stalin's prison camps; if Solzhenitsyn later became Russia's conscience in exile, this is the book with which he first challenged the brutal might of the Soviet Union. Amazon.com Product Description (ISBN 055304639X, Mass Market Paperback)This is the terrifying tale of an almost unbelievable man-made hell-- the Soviet work camps--and of one man's heroic struggle to survive in the face of the most determined efforts to destroy him-- a scathing indictment of Communist tyranny....Amazon.com Product Description (ISBN 0553247778, Mass Market Paperback)From the icy blast of reveille through the sweet release of sleep, Ivan Denisovich endures. A common carpenter, he is one of millions viciously imprisoned for countless years on baseless charges, sentenced to the waking nightmares of the Soviet work camps in Siberia. Even in the face of degrading hatred, where life is reduced to a bowl of gruel and a rare cigarette, hope and dignity prevail. This powerful novel of fact is a scathing indictment of Communist tyranny, and an eloquent affirmation of the human spirit.Amazon.com Product Description (ISBN 0374521956, Paperback)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. Amazon.com Product Description (ISBN 0140020535, Paperback)From back cover: Alexander Solzhenitsyn, a forty-four-year old physicist and mathematician, served in the army until February, 1945, when he was arrested and condemned to eight years in prison. He was subsequently sent to a concentration camp, from which he was released in 1956. Rehabilitated in 1957, he now teaches mathmatics and physics in a secondary school in Ryazan.(retrieved from Amazon Mon, 25 Aug 2008 06:22:47 -0400) |
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