Spark Notes: Ivan Denisovich,One Day in Life of (Sparknotes Literature Guides) - Softcover

Solzhenitsyn, Aleksandr

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1586638327 ISBN 13: 9781586638320

Publisher: SparkNotes, 2003

Synopsis

One of a series of top-quality fiction for schools, this is Solzhenitsyn's picture of human life in inhuman conditions. Written from personal experience, it describes in detail the day of a prisoner in a Soviet labour camp.

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Book Description

The authorised translation of the restored text by H. T. Willetts (20021018)

About the Author

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. 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 In 1970 he was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature, and in 1974 his citizenship was revoked and he was expelled from the Soviet Union.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.

H. T. Willetts' translations from the Russian include Alexander Solzhenitsyn's The Gulag Archipelago (with T. P. Whitney) and The Oak and The Calf.

(20021018)

Edition details

• Publisher: SparkNotes
• Publication date: 2003
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1586638327
• ISBN 13: 9781586638320
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 80