One Day In The Life Of Ivan Denisovitch

The first US edition of the first published novel of Nobel Prize winning Russian author Alexander Solzhenitsyn. This book is considered one of the most significant works ever to emerge from the Soviet Union. Illuminating a dark chapter in Russian history, it is at once a graphic picture of work camp life and a moving tribute to man's will to prevail over relentless dehumanization, "told by a literary genius whose talent matches that of Dostoyevsky, Turgenev, Tolstoy, [and] Gorky." (Harrison Salisbury, New York Times). It is the first major literary work to be published in the Soviet Union that is concerned with the plight of Stalin's political prisoners. The Nobel Prize in Literature 1970 was awarded to Alexandr Solzhenitsyn "for the ethical force with which he has pursued the indispensable traditions of Russian literature." Translated from the Russian by Ralph Parker. Introduction by Marvin L. Kalb. Foreword by Alexander Tvardovsky Editor-in Chief, Novy Mir (which first published the book) and an officer of the Union of Soviet Writers. 160 pages.