One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovichby Alexander Solzhenitsyn | |
| List(s): | "Racine Library List" "Carp 500" |
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| Category: |
"Fiction - General" |
| Pages: | 158 |
| Year of Publication: | 1962 |
| Date Read: | 11/20/1994 |
| Notes: | Set in the forced-labor camp in which the author was interned from 1950 to 1953, Ivan Denisovich describes a typical day in the life of an inmate. COMMENTS — Published during Nikita Khrushchev’s de-Stalinization program, the work was released without interference from Soviet government censors and made Solzhenitsyn an instant celebrity. He later wrote The Gulag Archipelago. |
| My Rating: | 7 |