Further Reading
- Allaback, Steven, "One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich," Alexander Solzhenitsyn, pp. 18-61, New York: Taplinger Publishing Company, 1978. (Characterizes One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich as Solzhenitsyn's most straightforward narrative.)
- Cismaru, Alfred, "The Importance of Food in One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich," San Jose Studies 9, No. 1 (Winter 1983): 99-105. (Emphasizes Solzhenitsyn's concern with food collection, ingestion, digestion, and with body preservation in general in One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich.)
- Clément, Olivier, The Spirit of Solzhenitsyn, London: Search Press, 1976, 234 p. (Analysis of Christian spirituality in Solzhenitsyn's collected works.)
- Cukierman, Walenty, "Platonov's 'The Cow' and Solženicyn's 'Matrena's Home': The Tolstojan Connection," Slavic and East European Journal 23, No. 1 (Spring 1979): 163-66. (Links "Matryona's Home" with another twentieth-century story, Andrej Platonov's "The Cow," seeing both Matryona and the cow as symbolic of the Russian peasantry and of Mother Russia herself.)
- Kern, Gary, "Ivan the Worker," Modern Fiction Studies 23, No. 1 (Spring 1977): 5-30. (Probes the structure of One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich to reveal how the structure imparts meaning, particularly in terms of the novella's theme of alienation.)
- Kern, Gary, "Solženicyn's Self-Censorship: The Canonical Text of Odin den' Ivana Denisovi a," Slavic and East European Journal 20, No. 4 (Winter 1976): 421-36. (Surveys changes Solzhenitsyn made in his novella in the hopes of passing the Soviet censorship.)
- Mihajlov, Mihajlo, "Dostoevsky's and Solzhenitsyn's House of the Dead," Russian Themes, translated by Marija Mihajlov, pp. 78-118, New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1968. (Compares One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich with the nineteenth-century Russian prison camp narrative The House of the Dead, by Fyodor Dostoevsky.)
- Moody, Christopher, "Stories and Plays," Solzhenitsyn, pp. 69-97, Edinburgh: Oliver & Boyd, 1973. (Evaluates theme and plot in Solzhenitsyn's short fiction and plays of the 1950s and early 1960s.)
- Pike, David, "A Camp through the Eyes of a Peasant: Solzhenitsyn's One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich," California Slavic Studies X (1977): 193-223. (Focuses on multiple perspectives, descriptive technique, and character delineation in One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich.)
- Rossbacher, Peter, "Solzhenitsyn's Matrena's Home," Slavic and East European Studies XII, Nos. 2-3 (1967): 114-21. (Relates the theme of "Matryona's Home"—the suffering of the innocent and the struggle between good and evil—to similar themes in nineteenth-century Russian literature.)
- Rothberg, Abraham, "Solzhenitsyn's Short Stories," Kansas Quarterly 9, No. 2 (Spring 1977): 31-50. (Examines six of Solzhenitsyn's short works, concluding: Where Solzhenitsyn can manage to unify the passion of his moral concerns with the anguish of his personal experience while maintaining the detachment and impersonality called for by creative imagination—as he does in Matryona's House—he transcends his biography and moves into the highest reaches of his art.)
- Springer, Mary Doyle, "The Apologue That Preaches by Example: Atypicality in the Making of a Typical 'Day,'" Forms of the Modern Novella, pp. 65-72, Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1975. (Studies consciousness and narrative in One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich, a novella Springer characterizes as an apologue, or moral fable.)
- Yarup, Robert L., "Solzhenitsyn's One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich," The Explicator 45, No. 1 (Fall 1986): 53-55. (Observes the strong spiritual component of Shukhov's will to survive in the Soviet labor camp.)
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