"One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich", written by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich (Russian: Один день Ивана Денисовича) is a novel written by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, first published in November 1962 in the Soviet literary magazine Novy Mir (New World).[1] The story is set in a Soviet labor camp in the 1950s, and describes a single day of an ordinary prisoner, Ivan Denisovich Shukhov. Its publication was an extraordinary event in Soviet literary history—never before had an account of "Stalinist repression" been openly distributed. The editor of Novy Mir, Aleksandr Tvardovsky, wrote a short introduction for the issue, titled "Instead of a Foreword," to prepare the journal's readers for what they were about to experience.


My opinion: I recently finished to go through "One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich" and I must confess this book chocked me in many many points. For one single day, you share life of Chouckhov or Ivan Denisovitch in the Gulag and see what makes his "life" in the Gulag. The very straight, familiar tone and vocabulary makes the reader feel closer to this day to day terrifying reality.
This book is a great legacy for future generation and, to me, is a MUST.