Nineteen sixty-two, debut year for One Day In The Life Of Ivan Denisovich and its author, was an important episode in the most unusual, if brief, epoch in recent Soviet history. By the end of 1964, the editor of Novy Mir (Tvardovsky), Khrushchev, Solzhenitsyn, and a number of other liberal elements or influences in Soviet culture became the targets of a widening campaign to restore Stalinist orthodoxy and a rigid party line to the arts. But by 1963, not only Solzhenitsyn, who had earlier been a protege of the Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev, but Khrushchev himself fell under a cloud as a new wave of political and cultural Reactionism again loomed in the Soviet Union. The 100,000 copies of Novy Mir ( New World) carrying the novella sold out in November 1962 in a matter of hours so did the almost 1 million copies of immediate second and third printings. Today Solzhenitsyn remains the most impressive figure in world literature of the latter half of the 20th century.īefore One Day was throttled in the USSR, it had become an overnight sensation. Alexander Solzhenitsyn, together with his epoch-making work, One Day In The Life Of Ivan Denisovich, flared up like a supernova in the Eastern skies and incandesced the Western skies as well. In mid-century - 1962 to be exact - a bright new talent appeared with stunning suddenness on the literary horizon. From the Nobel Prize Citation for Alexander Solzhenitsyn, October 8, 1970. For the ethical force with which he has pursued the indispensable traditions of Russian literature.
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The musical is based on Sendak's books Chicken Soup with Rice, Pierre, One was Johnny, Alligators All Around (which comprise 1962's The Nutshell Library), and The Sign on Rosie's Door (1960). Really Rosie is a musical with a book and lyrics by Maurice Sendak and music by Carole King. Musical by Maurice Sendak and Carole King Really Rosie |