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01 Jan 2020, 4:31 pm

domineekee wrote:
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kraftiekortie wrote:
I'm not sure if he was anti-Semitic. I'll have to look into that.Either way, he wrote realistically about the Gulags.

"One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich." He won the Nobel Prize for that.

Hmmm. Perhaps, I should read that book, one day!
He wrote a thick trilogy of books about his time in the Gulags (20 years I believe)
Apart from the corrupt justice system, he describes the heirachy amongst prisoners from feared criminal gangs at the top, down to those with sub-human status at the bottom.
https://www.google.com/url?q=https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Gulag_Archipelago&sa=U&ved=2ahUKEwiOyNSA7JbmAhXSjKQKHX2ECX0QFjAAegQICRAB&usg=AOvVaw2gknbELAg50cP8d3_8HOa_

That is really, really interesting.



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01 Jan 2020, 11:43 pm

Metal Rat wrote:
kraftiekortie wrote:
I'm not sure if he was anti-Semitic. I'll have to look into that.

Either way, he wrote realistically about the Gulags.

"One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich." He won the Nobel Prize for that.

Hmmm. Perhaps, I should read that book, one day!

Varlam Shalamov's Kolyma Tales are also worth looking into.


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