One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich
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Average rating3.9
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Ratings74
Average rating3.9
ONE DAY IN THE LIFE OF IVAN DENISOVICH 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 history—never 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.
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“The belly is a demon. It doesn't remember how well you treated it yesterday; it'll cry out for more tomorrow.”
“That knife's a breadwinner too. After all, you can be put in the cells for keeping it, and only a man without a conscience would say: lend us your knife, we're going to slice some sausage, and you can go fuck off.”
Well-written. Not a fave, but I learned some things through it.
[deep breath] it was a hard read, not that it was not well-written (it is captivating), but that I would find myself cringing while unintentionally imagining myself under the circumstances that characters went through. It reminded me of [b:Man's Search for Meaning 4069 Man's Search for Meaning Viktor E. Frankl https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1535419394l/4069.SY75.jpg 3389674] a bit.
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