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« on: 20:21:56, 05-09-2008 »
Saturday 6 September

BBC Radio 4

14.30-15.30

One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich

by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

When Solzhenitsyn’s shattering picture of Stalin’s prison camps became an international bestseller in 1962, it seemed to signal a thaw in the Cold War. But the uncensored version of the novel did not appear until 1991- the year Solzhenitsyn’s citizenship was restored in Russia. This production from 2003 is rebroadcast to mark the recent death of the Nobel prize-winning author.

The story follows the routine of a single day in the camps - a dynamic demonstration of human resilience.
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« Reply #1 on: 21:23:17, 05-09-2008 »
Thanks, Pim.     I've pencilled this in my diary, together with an intriguing documentary on 'Brel et Moi: Alastair Campbell on Jacques Brel', having become a devotee when hitchhiking in Europe as a student in the 1970s.    Strange bedfellows; kinda cute!     It is being broadcast, R4, 10.30 hrs tomorrow morning.
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« Reply #2 on: 21:34:50, 06-09-2008 »
Did anyone listen to the program?

I liked it very much. I listened on Listen again.
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« Reply #3 on: 22:39:22, 06-09-2008 »
I saw A Day in the Life in Borders in Islington today, in a display of banned books.  Although The Well of Loneliness was there, the ultimate banned book, and one I have never read, Lawrence's f****ing Lady Chat was not included.

Also To Kill a Mockingbird, which suprised me.
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« Reply #4 on: 00:38:45, 07-09-2008 »
If you feel inclined to dip into The Well Of Loneliness,  it's available on Project Gutenburg Australia - link here:

http://gutenberg.net.au/ebooks06/0609021.txt

I'm not sure it's really "literature", but it was a cause celebre of its time (and may be still?)

On the other hand I don't really rate IVAN DENISOVICH as great literature either - it's important for its message,  rather than as a piece of writing.  So perhaps they belong together, in some strange way?
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« Reply #5 on: 01:16:50, 07-09-2008 »
I agree.
I don't see much literary value in this prose.
Did any of you know Zinoviev books?
How about Rybnikov "Arbat"? Did anyone read this book?

Are there good books about life under Stalin leadership?
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« Reply #6 on: 01:31:01, 07-09-2008 »
I only read Rybnikov in English translation,  but it's such a badly-written book Sad  The saccharine sentiments and cardboard characters are too hard to believe.  Maybe life really was like that then,  but I somehow doubt it?

Ginzberg, Shalamov, and Vassily Grossman would be my first choices for the literature of that period and those times.  Well, and of course my beloved Daniil Kharms - although nothing he wrote was political.  It didn't save him from the Gulag Sad


Kharms - self-caricature
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« Reply #7 on: 02:50:25, 07-09-2008 »
Reiner, there was something on Kharms in the LRB a couple of months ago: I meant to tell you about it at the time. It was a review of a new translation, I think, but I've a feeling it also mentioned some other recent publications which I wondered if you knew about ... Too tired to go hunting for it now, I'll have to try and look it out in the next couple of days. You didn't see it, did you?
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« Reply #8 on: 10:48:29, 07-09-2008 »
Hi Tinners!

Sorry, I missed the LRB piece - the LRB isn't a mag I get regularly, to my infinite shame Sad   Kharms's work is now mostly recognised abroad at last = it's welcome to see a wave of good new translations coming out in print Smiley   Of course the "Lives Of The Great" series makes amusing reading,  but his more serious work is worth the reader's time too.
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« Reply #9 on: 11:52:43, 07-09-2008 »
Does any one knows the book: Rosiiya bez Rossii (Russia without Russia) by Gumilev.
A friend downloaded this audio book to my iPod today. He said that it is very interesting book.

Here there is Leo Gumilev with his parents.
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« Reply #10 on: 13:04:47, 07-09-2008 »
Oh, I'd be very interested in Gumilev's book, t-p!  Could you give me a link for the download? Smiley   Is that really him in the picture?! Smiley)  It's awful to think what a fate was awaiting all three of them Sad
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« Reply #11 on: 13:14:52, 07-09-2008 »
Yes, it is Leo Gumilev with his parents Nickolai Gumilev and Anna Achmatova.
After Nickolai was killed their son was send to Gulag somewhere. Anna was fighting for him. Leo was in prison for a while, but not for too long fortunately.

Reiner, Do you have iPod? I am going to ask my friend to send you the file. He has a few others that are very good.
The best part is that you can listen to the book and not to read it yourself.
I really love this idea.
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« Reply #12 on: 14:14:37, 07-09-2008 »
Quote from: trained-pianist on 13:14:52, 07-09-2008
Reiner, Do you have iPod? I am going to ask my friend to send you the file. He has a few others that are very good.
The best part is that you can listen to the book and not to read it yourself.
I really love this idea.

Although I have an mp3-player, it's not an iPod.  Do you know what format the file is in?  Maybe I could still listen to it?
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« Reply #13 on: 15:26:16, 07-09-2008 »
Quote from: Reiner Torheit on 00:38:45, 07-09-2008
If you feel inclined to dip into The Well Of Loneliness,  it's available on Project Gutenburg Australia - link here:

O we have it on the shelves, but I've never felt up to it.

There's a wonderful story about Mary Renault, author of The King Must Die and The Persian Boy, who was herself a lesbian, reading The Well when it was still banned.  She read it on holiday in France, and as she could not take the book back to Britain, and as she judged it so atrociously written, as she read each page, she tore it out and threw it away.
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« Reply #14 on: 15:37:09, 07-09-2008 »
Quote from: Don Basilio on 15:26:16, 07-09-2008
and as she judged it so atrociously written, as she read each page, she tore it out and threw it away.

I borrowed a copy of Iris Murdoch's Under the Net from one of my housemates a few years ago, and when I got to the end I found that the last few pages had been torn out. I asked her about this and she replied that the end was so badly written she got so angry that she felt she had no choice but to take it out on the book. All delivered in a rather lazy drawl between drags on a cigarette.

From the sounds of your story, that sounds like just the sort of thing that she would do!
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