The thing about this book that struck me was that it is so calm and almost emotionless.Ĭontrary to what you might expect, the titular character reveals almost no discontentment of his situation at all.
If he signed he’d still get a chance to live. What sort of mission neither Shukhov nor the interrogator could say…. Yes, he’d surrendered to the Germans with the intention of betraying his country and he’d returned from captivity to carry out a mission for German intelligence. The story is very simple simply following one single day in the life of a former Russian solider, Ivan Denisovich Shukhov, now serving 10 years hard labor in Siberia after being falsely accused of treason.
It was only able to be published due to Khrushchev’s inclinations towards de-Stalinization at that time. One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich , first published in 1962, was the first book that openly talked about life in the Soviet gulag system. An unforgettable portrait of the entire world of Stalin’s forced work camps, One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich is one of the most extraordinary literary documents to have emerged from the Soviet Union and confirms Solzhenitsyn’s stature as “a literary genius whose talent matches that of Dosotevsky, Turgenev, Tolstoy”–Harrison Salisbury” My Thoughts The story of labor-camp inmate Ivan Denisovich Shukhov, it graphically describes his struggle to maintain his dignity in the face of communist oppression. “First published in the Soviet journal Novy Mir in 1962, One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich stands as a classic of contemporary literature.
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