Character History
The story "One Day of Ivan Denisovich" brought popularity to the writer Alexander Isaevich Solzhenitsyn. The work became the first published essay of the author. He was published magazine "New World" in 1962. The story described one ordinary day of the camp prisoner during Stalinist mode.History of creation
Initially, the work was called "Sh-854. One day of one zacka, "but censorship and the mass of obstacles from publishers and authorities influenced the change of the name. The main acting person of the described story was Ivan Denisovich Shukhov.
The image of the main character was created on the basis of prototypes. The first served the friend of Solzhenitsyn, who fought with him at the front to the Great Patriotic War, but did not fall into the camp. The second is the writer himself who knew the fate of camp prisoners. Solzhenitsyn was convicted of the 58th article and spent several years in the camp, working as a mason. The story takes place in the winter of 1951 at Katorga in Siberia.
The image of Ivan Denisovich is a mansion in Russian literature of the 20th century. When the power change occurred, and the Stalinist regime was allowed to speak out loud, this character became the personification of the prisoner of the Soviet correctional labor camp. The images described in the story were familiar with those who have suffered such a sad experience. The story served as an alternation of a major work, which turned out to be the novel "Archipelag Gulag".
"One day Ivan Denisovich"
The story describes the biography of Ivan Denisovich, his appearance and how is the routine of the day in the camp. Men 40 years old. He is a native village of Tegenevo. Leaving the war in the summer of 1941, he left home his wife and two daughters. The wilts of Fate hero hit the camp in Siberia and managed to serve eight years. On the outcome of the ninth year, after which he will again be able to conduct a free life.
According to the official version, the man received a deadline for treason. We considered that, having visited German captivity, Ivan Denisovich returned to his homeland on the instructions of the Germans. I had to recognize myself guilty to stay alive. Although in reality, the case was different. In battle, the detachment was in a disastrous position without food and shells. Having missed her, the fighters were encountered as enemies. The soldiers did not believe the story of the fugitives and passed them on trial, which determined the core works as a punishment.
At first, Ivan Denisovich fell into a camp with a strict regime in Ust-Izhmen, and then he was transferred to Siberia, where the restrictions were not so strictly respected. Hero lost half of the teeth, reflected the beard and grilled his head. He was assigned the number Shch-854, and the campwear makes it a typical little man, the fate of which decishes the higher instances and the power of the property.
For eight years of conclusion, a man learned the laws of survival in the camp. His friends and enemies from the searches had just as sad fate. Problems in relationships were a key lack of existence in conclusion. It was because of them that the authorities had much power over prisoners.
Ivan Denisovich preferred to show calm, behave adequately and abide by subordination. A cool man, he quickly realized how to ensure survival and a decent reputation. He managed to work and relax, planned the right day and food, skillfully found a common language with whom it was necessary. The characteristic of his skills speaks of wisdom laid at the genetic level. Such qualities demonstrated the fortress peasants. His skills and experience helped become the best master in the brigade, deserve respect and status.
Ivan Denisovich was a full managers of his fate. He knew how to do, to live with comfort, did not be laughed, but did not break it, he could relieve the warder and easily managed sharp corners in communication with the sites and with the bosses. The happy day of Ivan Shukhov was the afternoon when he was not planted in the Cake and his brigade was not distributed in the social town when work was made on time and managed to stretch the soldering on the day when he hid his knuckling and did not find it, and Caesar Markovich gave her tobacco.
The image of shhukhov critics was compared with the hero of Tolstoy - Plato Karataev. The hero of the simple people, broken by the insane state system, was among the camp machines, breaking people who degrading their spirit and human self-awareness.
Shukhov asked himself a bar, below which was in disabilities to fall. Therefore, he removes the cap, sitting down at the table, neglecting fishing eyes in the Balance. So he retains his spirit and does not betray honor. This elevates a man over the collections, licking bowls, stylish in Lazarut and knocking bosses. Therefore, shukhov remains free to the spirit.
Attitude towards work in the work is described in a special way. Laying the wall causes an unprecedented excitement, and men, forgetting that they are camp prisoners, put all the forces on its rapid construction. Production novels, filled with such a promise, were supported by the spirit of socialism, but in the story of Solzhenitsyn, it is rather an allegory to the "Divine Comedy" Dante Aligiery.
A person will not lose himself if he has a goal, so the construction of the CHP becomes symbolic. The camp existence is interrupted by satisfying the work done. Cleansing, brought by pleasure from fruitful labor, even allows you to forget about the disease.
The specifics of the image of Ivan Denisovich speaks of the return of literature to the idea of populism. The story rises the topic of suffering in the name of the Lord in a conversation with Alesh. Supports this topic and carriage Matrena. God and the liberty do not fit into the usual system of compulsion of faith, but the dispute sounds like paraphrase of the discussion of Karamazov.
Setting and screening
For the first time, the public visualization of the story of Solzhenitsyn took place in 1963. The British Canal "NBC" has released a TV link with Jason Rabardz junior in the lead role. Finnish director Kaspar Reed removed the film "One Day Ivan Denisovich" in 1970, inviting Artist Tom Courtney to cooperate.
The story is little in demand for adaptation, but in the 2000s gained a second life on the theater scene. A deep analysis of the work carried out by directors proved that the story has a great dramatic potential, describes the past of the country that cannot be forgotten and emphasizes the importance of perpetual values.
In 2003, Andriy Zholdak put on the reasons of the performance in the Kharkov Drama Theater. Shevchenko. Stage did not like Solzhenitsyn.
Full Alexander Filippenko created monospectacle in collaboration with theatrical artist David Borovsky in 2006. In 2009, in the Perm Academic Opera and Ballet Theater, Georgy Isaakyan, put Opera to Tchaikovsky's music based on the story of "One Day Ivan Denisovich". In 2013, the Arkhangelsk Theater of Drama presented the production of Alexander Gorbanya.