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One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich |
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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 journals readers for what they were about to experience.TranslationsAt least five English translations have been made. Of those, the translation by Ralph Parker (New York: Dutton, 1963) was the first to be published, followed by...view more
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