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Aug 04, 2018DibuzJudit rated this title 5 out of 5 stars
This was the third time I read Ivan Denisovich. By the way, it is impolite to refer to a Russian person only by First name, unless close friend or relative and not much older than you. I read the eight comments available to us and was very glad that most people found the great value that is in it, literary and human. There was one person who wrote that it was VERY VERY boring. A friend who, in her earlier years 'taught' the book made the comment to me yesterday: "Everybody should read this book". I agree, but sadly, apparently there are some people on whom it has no redeeming effect. Happily, very few. I am an 82 year old Hungarian who lived through nazism, the terror called communism, took part in the '56 revolution and, sadly, found it necessary to escape before retaliations. Our family lost everything we owned, in 1944, down to the last piece of underwear. We never whined. You go on. There is always beauty and value in life if you are strong enough to look for it. When a person who has not gone through similar experiences "gets" this book, I tip my hat to them. Or should I tip my hat to Solzhenitsyn's literary and human genius? Judit Dibuz, Seattle