One Day In the Life of Ivan Denisovich.

SOLZHENITSYN, Alexander [Solzhenitzyn].

Item Number: 142112

Moscow: Goslitizdat, 1962.

First edition in Russian of the author’s first work. Octavo, original wrappers. In very good condition. Rare and desirable.

Alexander Solzhenitsyn's first book, is an "economical, relentless novel is one of the most forceful artistic indictments of political oppression in the Stalin-era Soviet Union" (The New York Times). The simply told story of a typical, grueling day of the titular character's life in a labor camp in Siberia, is a modern classic of Russian literature and quickly cemented Solzhenitsyn's international reputation upon publication. "One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich yields, more than anything else, a beautiful sense of its author as a Chekhovian figure: simple, free of literary affectation, wholly serious" (The New Republic).