num_pages: 159
description: Foreshadowing his later detailed accounts of the Soviet prison-camp system, Solzhenitsyn's classic portrayal of life in the gulag is all the more powerful for being slighter and more personal than those later monumental volumes. Continuing the tradition of the great nineteenth-century Russian novelists, especially Dostoevsky and Tolstoy, Solzhenitsyn is fully worthy of them in narrative power and moral authority. His greatest work.
language: English
title: One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich
titlecomplete: One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich
characters: Ivan Denisovich Shukhov
genres: Fiction, Historical, School, Literature, Classics, Novels, Russian Literature, Historical Fiction, 20th Century, Russia
ratings_count: 110243
places: Soviet Union, Russian Federation
publisher: Everyman's Library