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Informationen zum Autor Robert Porter was Lecturer in Russian Language and Literature, then Personal Chair, at the University of Bristol; thereafter Professor of Slavonic Studies at the University of Glasgow, UK. His publications include Four Contemporary Russian Writers (1989), Russia's Alternative Prose (1994), and translations of Evgenii Popov: The Soul of a Patriot (1994), Merry-Making in Old Russia (1996), Vladimir Voinovich's By Means of Mutual Correspondence (1996, also available from Bloomsbury). Klappentext Gauges the political and literary impact that the book has made in Russia and abroad, and examines its more universal, intrinsic qualities Vorwort Gauges the huge impact of this book - about a Russian peasant surviving a single day in one of Stalin's labour camps - its publication, political and literary impact in Russia and abroad Zusammenfassung Few literary events- either in Russia or elsewhere- can rank with the publication in November 1962 of One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich by a hitherto unknown author, Alexander Solzhenitsyn.The account of a barely literate Russian peasant's surviving a single day in one of Stalin's labour camps shocked the reading public with its authenticity; it also depicted the intricacies and resilience of the human spirit in ways comparable with the fmest writing of Tolstoy and Dostoevsky. The Nobel Prize for literature came in 1970, yet, for many, this first work remains Solzhenitsyn's finest achievement. The present study gauges the book's political and literary impact in Russia and abroad, and examines its more universal, intrinsic qualities. Inhaltsverzeichnis PrefacePART ONEIntroduction- The Story of a Book's PublicationChapter I -Russian Texts and English TranslationsChapter II - An Overview of Critical ResponsesResponses in the Soviet UnionCritical Responses in the WestNotesPART TWOChapter I -A Modernist Text?Chapter II -Epic Traits and the Tolstoy DimensionChapter III - Peasants, Workers and IntellectualsNotesAfterwordBibliographyIndex...
