One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich
1962 novella by Alexander Solzhenitsyn / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich (Russian: Один день Ивана Денисовича, romanized: Odin den' Ivana Denisovicha, IPA: [ɐˈdʲin ˈdʲenʲ ɪˈvanə dʲɪˈnʲisəvʲɪtɕə]) is a short novel by the Russian writer and Nobel laureate Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, first published in November 1962 in the Soviet literary magazine Novy Mir (New World).[1] The story is set in a Soviet labor camp in the early 1950s and features the day of prisoner Ivan Denisovich Shukhov.
Author | Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn |
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Original title | Один день Ивана Денисовича |
Translators | Ralph Parker (1963); Ron Hingley and Max Hayward (1963); Gillon Aitken (1970); H.T. Willetts (1991) |
Country | Soviet Union |
Language | Russian |
Genre | Historical Fiction; Prison Novel; Political Novel |
Publisher | Signet Classic |
Publication date | 1962 |
ISBN | 0-451-52310-5 |
OCLC | 29526909 |
The book's publication was an extraordinary event in Soviet literary history, since never before had an account of Stalinist repressions been openly distributed in the Soviet Union. Novy Mir editor Aleksandr Tvardovsky wrote a short introduction for the issue entitled "Instead of a Foreword".