One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich | Essays and Criticism

  • Examination of Ivan

    Bolan is an adjunct faculty member of Columbia College of Missouri extensions, a published writer of essays, short stories, and poems, and a playwright. In the following essay, she examines Ivan as the protagonist in One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich and how this character affects setting, symbol, and theme in a literary, political, and personal way.

  • The Importance of Food in One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich

    In the essay below, Cismaru reflects on the important role food plays in not only the physical but also the psychological survival of prisoners in the gulag.