| Solzhenitsyn's One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich Contributor(s): Porter, Robert (Author) |
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ISBN: 1853994707 ISBN-13: 9781853994708 Publisher: Bristol Classical Press OUR PRICE: $29.65 Product Type: Paperback Published: January 1998 Annotation: Alexander Solzhenitsyn was an unknown author until the publication of "One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich" in 1962, the book that was to win him the Nobel Prize in 1970. It is an account of a barely literate Russian peasant's surviving a single day in one of Stalin's labour camps. It depicted the intricacies and resilience of the human spirit in a style comparable with Tolstoy and Dostoyevsky. This study gauges the political and literary impact that the book has made in Russia and abroad, and examines its more universal, intrinsic qualities |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Literary Criticism | Russian & Former Soviet Union |
| Dewey: 891.734 |
| Series: Critical Studies in Russian Literature |
| Physical Information: 0.31" H x 5.55" W x 8.53" (0.38 lbs) 120 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Alexander Solzhenitsyn was an unknown author until the publication of One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich in 1962, the book that was to win him the Nobel Prize in 1970. It is an account of a barely literate Russian peasant's surviving a single day in one of Stalin's labour camps. It depicted the intricacies and resilience of the human spirit in a style comparable with Tolstoy and Dostoyevsky. This study gauges the political and literary impact that the book has made in Russia and abroad, and examines its more universal, intrinsic qualities. |