/lit/ - Literature

Expect to be buying more Alexander Solzhenitsyn soon. It's pretty amazing. I finished it rather quickly. I read it about the same time as I read Viktor Frankl's "Man's Search for Meaning," which was very illuminating, and on the same sort of subject.

after reading it, expect thought on the human ability to get used to anything, even the worse

expect a slog-fest. I had to read it for a world-lit course, it's not that the book is awful, it's just there is no climax. Like the title says it's one day. The motifs are so in your face its ridiculous. But i do hope you enjoy.

this one had a tremendous influence on the soviet protest generation but enriched the russian language with quite many slang terms related to food and labour. it's pretty short and tells the tale of a stalin era labour camp from a peasant's point of view which means you will have more to say in Stalin vs. Hitler online debates due to your superior learning.
I have a collection with Elie Wiesel, Primo Levi, Varlam Shalamov and him. I don't like other Solzhenytsin works because he happens to be an antisemitic, authoritarianist, commie-eating, misogynist nationalist but it's more tolerable here because you know it is his lyric hero who is being exactly that.
The Gulag Archipelago is a documentary book made of interviews. It sucks because the relevant documents were made public after the dissolution of the ussr. 200 years together is about how the jews taught the godfearing tsarbearing Russian people to drink vodka and to pursue rotten western ideas.
I urge you to buy "the Kolyma Tales" of Varlam Shalamov to get an intellectual urbanite's pov on the very same system. It's a collection of short stories.

To be moved by humanities perseverance.

expect all food to taste much better

>>986570
oh bullshit. It's true that this book has no climax, but there are times where I honestly really loved this book

>>986673
This. I remember after I read "One Day," I would sit and stare at my meals for a few minutes and think about Ivan before I started eating.

it has the best sex scenes i saw

>>986506

great book, frankl is the man

>>986938
Honestly, I wasn't all that impressed by Frankl. He did have one clever insight that has stuck with me though: his distinction between the types of people who think of days as short and years as long, and those who think of days as long and years as short. And if you are in the latter category, you might think of changing your lifestyle.

It's one of my personal favorite books, but most other people I know who have read it have told me they think it's really boring.

>>987139
You know douches.

>>987154
I won't argue with you there