by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn · Penguin Classics · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780141184746
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«One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich» is the novel by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn published by Penguin Classics in paperback (144 pages, in English).
It follows Ivan Denisovich, a prisoner in a Soviet gulag, through a single day of forced labor: extreme cold, hunger, and arbitrary guards. The narrative lingers on small details —a ration of bread, a hidden spoon— to show how life and dignity are preserved in a dehumanizing system.
The work was originally published in Russian in 1962; this English edition uses the translation by Ralph Parker and belongs to the Penguin Modern Classics series.
For readers of classics and Russian literature, particularly those seeking historical fiction about the Soviet Union and Stalinism.
Aleksandr Isayevich Solzhenitsyn was a Soviet and Russian author and dissident who helped to raise global awareness of political repression in the Soviet Union, especially the Gulag prison system. He was awarded the 1970 Nobel Prize in Literature "for the ethical force with which he has pursued the indispensable traditions of Russian literature". His nonfiction work The Gulag Archipelago "amounted to a head-on challenge to the Soviet state" and sold tens of millions of copies.
