One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich - Softcover

Solzhenietisyn, Aleksandr Isaevich

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0451527097 ISBN 13: 9780451527097

Publisher: Addison Wesley, 2002

Synopsis

Highlighted by a new introduction by Yevgeny Yevtushenko, a brutal depiction of life in a Stalinist camp and a moving tribute to man's triumph over relentless dehumanization in a novel said to be one of the most outspoken and significant literary documents ever to come out of Soviet Russia. Reprint.

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Product Description

Paperback Pub Date: 1998 08 Pages: 160 Publisher: Penguin Group Ivan Denisovich day is the Soxhlet famous for. published in 1962. had Khrushchev approval to be published. The novel describes the life of Ivan Denisovich day this little guy in the labor camps of the former Soviet Union. Wall Literature for the mountains. in 1965. have been subjected to large-scale critical. Soxhlet's novella writing is precise and appropriate. detailed description. unique idea. with a high artistic quality.

Review

Cannot fail to arouse bitterness and pain in the heart of the reader. A literary and political event of the first magnitude.
New Statesman
Stark . . . the story of how one falsely accused convict and his fellow prisoners survived or perished in an arctic slave labor camp after the war.
Time
Both as a political tract and as a literary work, it is in the Doctor Zhivago category.
Washington Post
Dramatic . . . outspoken . . . graphically detailed . . . a moving human record.
Library Journal"

-Cannot fail to arouse bitterness and pain in the heart of the reader. A literary and political event of the first magnitude.-
-New Statesman
-Stark . . . the story of how one falsely accused convict and his fellow prisoners survived or perished in an arctic slave labor camp after the war.-
-Time
-Both as a political tract and as a literary work, it is in the Doctor Zhivago category.-
-Washington Post
-Dramatic . . . outspoken . . . graphically detailed . . . a moving human record.-
-Library Journal

"Cannot fail to arouse bitterness and pain in the heart of the reader. A literary and political event of the first magnitude."
-New Statesman

"Stark . . . the story of how one falsely accused convict and his fellow prisoners survived or perished in an arctic slave labor camp after the war."
-Time

"Both as a political tract and as a literary work, it is in the Doctor Zhivago category."
-Washington Post

"Dramatic . . . outspoken . . . graphically detailed . . . a moving human record."
-Library Journal

Edition details

• Publisher: Addison Wesley
• Publication date: 2002
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0451527097
• ISBN 13: 9780451527097
• Binding: Mass Market Paperback
• Number of pages: 158