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One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

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Jan 11, 2018 Kelly_Hunsaker_reads ... rated it it was amazing · review of another edition

Shelves: russian-lit, read-in-2019, classics, read-the-world, read-the-world-2018-2020, 1001-books, read-in-2022

Solzhenitsyn wrote a really good novella that effectively showed the horrendous life of people in the forced labor camps run by the Soviet government. He showed the dreariness and sameness of the days, which must have led to so much boredom and even mental breakdowns. He allowed the reader to feel the cold seep into their bones. He made me hungry. I was completely immersed in the story and longing for a way to break the pattern. And then as the book wound to an end he brilliantly told of the tho ...more

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Mar 22, 2012 Laura rated it really liked it

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A great masterpiece written by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn.

This book will be released at Biblioteca Mário de Andrade. ...more

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Solzhenitsyn received the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1970, and along with "The Gulag Archipelago", One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich was mentioned. "In One Day...", Solzhenitsyn gives his reading audience a taste of what life was like in the Gulag - the Soviet prison system, which was in effect a slave labor system. ...more

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