One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich
by Aleksandr Solzhenitsynliterary work· published 1962
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One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich is a short novel by the Russian writer and Nobel laureate Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, first published in November 1962 in the Soviet literary magazine Novy Mir (New World). The story is set in a Soviet labor camp in the early 1950s and features the day of prisoner Ivan Denisovich Shukhov. The book's publication was an extraordinary event in Soviet literary history, since never before had an account of Stalinist repressions been openly distributed in the Soviet Union. Novy Mir editor Aleksandr Tvardovsky wrote a short introduction for the issue entitled "Instead of a Foreword".
Adaptations (1)
One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich was adapted into a 1970 film.
One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich1970 · film · 100 min · dir. Casper Wrede · IMDb ↗IMDb7.117%Fly-on-the-wall treatment of an ordinary day in the life of a prisoner in Stalin's Gulag. Closely adapted from Solzhenitsyn's classic novel based on his own experiences. Shot entirely on location in northern Norway
