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I did read that book but did not finish it. Got stuck in the gulag part. I did not know there was anything after it.
by TedDoesntTalk 5y ago
I did read that book but did not finish it. Got stuck in the gulag part. I did not know there was anything after it.
- CRConrad 5y agoI think you may have misunderstood: Denisovich is pretty much all about his life (as the title says, a day thereof) in a Gulag. Perhaps a page or three of more general musings at the very end. And that's all there is to it, The End, nothing more after that -- it is just "the gulag part". What you should skip, as I read the recommendation, is The Gulag Archipelago, a separate multi-volume (at least a trilogy, maybe much more) epic about the Gulag system in general and, I gather (but may be wrong) more explicitly based on Solzhenitsyn's own life therein. FWIW, I agree with this recommendation.