Dec 22, 2009

Darkness at Noon | What Do I Read Next?

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn won the Nobel Prize for literature in 1970 principally for his novel One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich (1962), which describes in stark and innovative language one man’s experience in a Soviet “gulag” (labor camp) towards the end of Stalin’s rule. The novel is based on Solzhenitsyn’s own experience.
George Orwell’s 1984 (1949) is a striking and insightful glimpse of a possible totalitarian future. Orwell was Koestler’s friend and a prominent...