One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich
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One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich (1962) is a novel by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn which was one of the greatest to emerge from the communist Soviet Union. It extols the ability of the human will to triumph over the most inhumane conditions. Solzhenitsyn won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1970 for this work, which is only 209 pages long.
An excerpt from the book:
| “ | A man can live here, just like anywhere else. Know who croaks first? The guy who licks out bowls, puts his faith in the sick bay, or squeals to godfather [a snitch].[1] | ” |