Posts Tagged ‘ Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn ’

‘50 Novels’ One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich: Afterthoughts

Jul 16th, 2008 | By Rob | Category: 50 Novels in One Year, Afterthoughts

I’ve now finished reading this chosen title as part of my 50 Novels in One Year reading challenge so I thought, as always, I’d share my unqualified thoughts.
Set in a post-war Stalinist labour camp, this novel, as the title suggests, centres on a single day in the life of ‘political prisoner’ Ivan Denisovich, from (before) [...]

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‘50 Novels’ #6: One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Jul 14th, 2008 | By Rob | Category: 50 Novels in One Year, What's Rob Reading?

After finishing the latest book in my 50 Novels in One Year reading challenge, I thought I would take a break from American-authored novels (3 out of the first 5 I’ve read have been by American authors), and move to something completely different, Russian literature, in the form of the Nobel Prize winning novel - [...]

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