![]() Basis for the joint Norwegian-British 1970 film starring Tom Courtenay. "One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich yields, more than anything else, a beautiful sense of its author as a Chekhovian figure: simple, free of literary affectation, wholly serious" (The New Republic). The simply told story of a typical, grueling day of the titular character's life in a labor camp in Siberia, is a modern classic of Russian literature and quickly cemented Solzhenitsyn's international reputation upon publication. A beautiful example rare signed and inscribed.Īlexander Solzhenitsyn's first book, is an "economical, relentless novel is one of the most forceful artistic indictments of political oppression in the Stalin-era Soviet Union" (The New York Times). One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich Author/Context Alexander (Sanya) Isayevich Solzhenitsyn was born in Kislovodsk, southern Russia, on December 11th, 1918. Housed in a custom half morocco clamshell box. Introduction by Max Hayward and Leopold Lebedz. Translated by Max Hayward and Ronald Hingley. ![]() ![]() Fine in a near fine dust jacket with two small closed tears. Inscribed and dated by Solzhenitsyn in 1976. Item Number: 3881įirst American edition of the Nobel Prize-winning author’s first book and what many consider his masterpiece. ![]()
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