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1962 in the Soviet Union: One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich

1962 in the Soviet Union: One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich


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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 99. Not illustrated. Chapters: One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich. Excerpt: One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich (Russian: Odin den' Ivana Denisovicha) is a novel written by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, first published in November 1962 in the Soviet literary magazine Novy Mir (New World). The story is set in a Soviet labor camp in the 1950s, and describes a single day of an ordinary prisoner, Ivan Denisovich Shukhov. Its publication was an extraordinary event in Soviet literary historynever before had an account of Stalinist repression been openly distributed. The editor of Novy Mir, Aleksandr Tvardovsky, wrote a short introduction for the issue, titled "Instead of a Foreword," to prepare the journal's readers for what they were about to experience. At least four English translations have been made. Of those, the 1963 Signet translation by Ralph Parker was the first to be published, followed by the 1963 Bantam (Random House) translation by Ronald Hingley and Max Hayward and the 1970 translation by Gillon Aitken. The fourth translation, by H.T. Willetts and the only one authorized by Solzhenitsyn, was published in 1991. Some names differ among the translations; those below are from the Hingley and Hayward translation. Ivan Denisovich Shukhov has been sentenced to a camp in the Soviet gulag system, accused of becoming a spy after being captured by the Germans as a prisoner of war during World War II. He is innocent but is nonetheless punished by the government for being a spy. His sentence is for ten years, but the book indicates that most people never leave the camps. The final paragraph suggests that Shukhov serves exactly ten yearsno more and no lessbut whether this is merely Shukhov's hope is left for the reader to decide. The day begins with Shukhov waking up sick. For waking late, he is sent to the guardhouse and forced to c...


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  • ISBN-13: 9781156155363
  • Publisher: Books LLC
  • Publisher Imprint: Books LLC
  • Height: 246 mm
  • No of Pages: 32
  • Spine Width: 2 mm
  • Weight: 77 gr
  • ISBN-10: 1156155363
  • Publisher Date: 15 Sep 2010
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N
  • Sub Title: One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich
  • Width: 189 mm


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