One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich

fiction, Novel by Aleksandr Isayevich Solzhenitsyn

Blurb

Solzhenitsyn's first book, this economical, relentless novel is one of the most forceful artistic indictments of political oppression in the Stalin-era Soviet Union. The simply told story of a typical, grueling day of the titular character's life in a labor camp in Siberia, is a modern classic of Russian literature and quickly cemented Solzhenitsyn's international reputation upon publication in 1962. It is painfully apparent that Solzhenitsyn himself spent time in the gulags--he was imprisoned for nearly a decade as punishment for making derogatory statements about Stalin in a letter to a friend.

First Published

1962

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Mandavi

Irgendwie verstörend, dass, obwohl die beschriebenen Lebensbedingungen so extrem sind, Glücksempfindungen immer noch so stark sein können. Andererseits auch sehr beruhigend. Aber es fällt nicht ganz leicht Iwans Empfindungen wirklich zu verstehen, wenn man mit vollem Bauch im Warmen sitzt. Die einsetzen Mittel zur (Selbst-) Kontrolle der Massen lassen einen über die eigenen sozialen Gefüge grübeln. Vergessen sind diese Methoden sicher nicht.

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