Story, no Soviet writer had tackled this most terrible and characteristic feature of the Stalin era. Until the November issue of the literary journal, Novy Mir, appeared with Solzhenitsyn's In the Soviet Union, of course, it has been a sensation. So it is with Solzhenitsyn's remarkable tale. Yet, each of these works changed our perception of the known facts. The cruelty, the falseness of the charges, the animal fight for survival, the debasement, the cynical grafting, the brutalizing, the sentences stretching into infinity (orĭeath), the hunger, the suffering, the cold-all this is familiar.īut the same might have been said of conditions in Russian prisons before Dostoyevsky wrote his "Notes, from the House of the Dead." The story of political prisoners in Siberia was well known before George Kennan wrote his famous "Siberia There is hardly a detail in Solzhenitsyn's story which, in itself is new. "One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich" is his first literary work, the simple story of one day Solzhenitsyn is a 44-year-old mathematics teacher in the old Russian town of Ryazan who spent eight years in Stalinís concentration camps. The reason for this is a rather short, sparsely told, eloquent, explosive, work by Alexander Solzhenitsyn which today reaches the American public
Suddenly, in Moscow, it would appear, everyone wants to write about life in the Stalin concentration camps. Other subjects besides "the camps" to write about. Illyiehev, the Soviet propaganda boss, made a rather plaintive speech to the young writers of Moscow. SALISBURYĮw York - Two or three weeks ago Leonid F. JanuOne Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich By HARRISON E.
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