Narrative Arts and Labor Camp Writing in One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich

Abstract

Abstract: Free indirect speech is extensively used as “polyphonic” narrative in Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn's novel One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich. Through unique narrative perspective and exquisite narrative technique, the author uncovers the “painful history” in a highly concentrated aesthetic time-space. He not only depicted the cruelty and brutality in the labor camp, but also reinterpreted the prisoner's identity construction and ethical choice, the national spirit and moral belief of Russia. Following humanitarian tradition of Russian classical literature, the novel initiated Soviet “labor camp literature” by documentary writing, and proclaimed the Russian pride and Slavic superiority, which connote the “neopochvennichestvo” and “neoslavophilism” advocated by the writer as one of leading Soviet intellectuals. Thus, the novel showed concern about the history and future of motherland, and tried to find a way out for the country in distress.

Key words: A. I. Solzhenitsyn, One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich, narrative art, labor camp, neoslavophilism

Wang Lei, Wang Jiaxing. Narrative Arts and Labor Camp Writing in One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich[J]. Foreign Literature Studies, 2017, 39(5): 99-108.

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