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...Life of Ivan Denisovich, by Alexander Solzhenitsyn. One day seems like a lifetime in this grim novel about conditions in one of Stalin's slave labor camps...
...Life of Ivan Denisovich, by Alexander Solzhenitsyn. An ex-political prisoner, who spent eight years in Siberia, has soared to fame in Russia by writing a roughhewn novel about life in one of Stalin's concentration camps...
...translator in his Greenwich Village house for eleven days, and moved in two editors, two typists, and "enormous quantities of Scotch." The Scotch did not help. The Praeger translation is much the sloppier of the two, neither of which is Nobel Prize material. But the raw reality of Solzhenitsyn's novel survives both...
Perpetually Cold. Solzhenitsyn writes authoritatively of a Siberian labor camp because he spent eight years in one. Twice decorated in World War II. he nevertheless was arrested in 1945 for criticizing Stalin, served his full sentence, and then was forced to stay in exile in Siberia. Only after Khrushchev's anti-Stalin speech was he allowed to return; he now teaches school in a town southeast of Moscow...
Dryly and precisely, Solzhenitsyn describes life at the camp, piling horror on top of horror, until the place seems too monstrous to be believed. One day in the life of the peasant hero Ivan Denisovich Shukhov seems a lifetime...