SOLZHENITSYN, Alexander.

One Day In the Life of Ivan Denisovich.

New York: Frederick A. Praeger , 1963.

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"Can a man who's warm understand one who's freezing?": First American Edition of One Day In The Life Of Ivan Denisovich; Inscribed by Alexander Solzhenitsyn

First American edition of the Nobel Prize-winning author's first book and what many consider his masterpiece. Octavo, original black cloth. Inscribed and dated by Solzhenitsyn in 1976. Fine in a near fine dust jacket with two small closed tears. Translated by Max Hayward and Ronald Hingley. Introduction by Max Hayward and Leopold Lebedz. Housed in a custom half morocco clamshell box. A beautiful example; rare signed and inscribed.

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). Basis for the joint Norwegian-British 1970 film starring Tom Courtenay.