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One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich: Alexander Solzhenitsyn (Everyman's Library CLASSICS)

One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich: Alexander Solzhenitsyn (Everyman's Library CLASSICS)

by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn (Author), Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn (Author), Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn (Author), John Bayley (Introduction), H T Willetts (Translator)

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    Hardcover 1995

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    Paperback 1990

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Synopsis

Foreshadowing his later detailed accounts of the Soviet prison-camp system, Solzhenitsyn's classic portrayal of life in the gulag is all the more powerful for being slighter and more personal than those later monumental volumes. Continuing the tradition of the great nineteenth-century Russian novelists, especially Dostoevsky and Tolstoy, Solzhenitsyn is fully worthy of them in narrative power and moral authority. His greatest work.

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Format: Hardcover
 Pages: 160
 Edition: 1
 Publisher: Everyman
Published: 21 Sep 1995
ISBN 10: 1857152190
ISBN 13: 9781857152197

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aA masterpiecea]Squarely in the mainstream of Russiaas great literary traditions.a
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Author Bio
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn was born in 1918 and grew up in Rostov-on-Don. He graduated in physics and mathematics from Rostov University and studied literature by correspondence course at Moscow University. In World War II he fought as an artillery officer, attaining the rank of captain. In 1945, however, after making derogatory remarks about Stalin in a letter, he was arrested and summarily sentenced to eight years in forced labour camps, followed by internal exile. In 1957 he formally rehabilitated, and settled down to teaching and writing, in Ryazan and Moscow. The publication of One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich in Novy Mir in 1962 was followed by publication, in the West, of his novels Cancer Ward and The First Circle. In 1970 he was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature, and in 1974 his citizenship was revoked and he was expelled from the Soviet Union. He settled in Vermont and worked on his great historical cycle The Red Wheel. In 1990, with the fall of Soviet Communism, his citizenship was restored and four years later he returned to settle in Russia. Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn died in August 2008.