One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich: A Novel

By Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Book Overview

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.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0374521956
• ISBN13: 9780374521950
• Release Date: February 1992
• Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
• Length: 188 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 8.3" x 0.5" x 5.5"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher

Customer Reviews

Solzhenitsyn is worth the struggle

Solzhenitsyn is never light reading. However, when you push through you will encounter moments of brilliantly illuminating literature.