one day in the life of alexander solzhenitsyn

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Premier Nikita Khrushchev piloted a special resolution through the Central Committee authorizing its publication it appeared in November 1962, and Solzhenitsyn found himself catapulted to literary fame by his first published work, not only for its intrinsic merits but for the very fact that the government was allowing fictional treatment of a formerly forbidden topic, life in Stalin’s forced-labor camps” ( Handbook of Russian Literature). “The speech denouncing Stalin at the 22nd Communist Party Congress in 1961 emboldened Solzhenitsyn to submit One Day for publication to… the Moscow literary journal Novyi Mir.

Octavo, original red cloth, original dust jacket.įirst English edition of the Nobel Prize-winner’s first published work, translated by Ralph Parker. “THERE WASN’T MUCH FISH, JUST A FEW STRAY BITS OF BARE BACKBONE”: FIRST ENGLISH EDITION OF SOLZHENITSYN’S ONE DAY IN THE LIFE OF IVAN DENISOVICH, 1963

One day in the life of alexander solzhenitsyn