"We Never Make Mistakes" Two Short Novels
In "An incident at Krechetovka Station," a Red Army lieutenant named Zotov is confronted by a disturbing straggler soldier and must decide what to do with him. He ultimately sends him to a miserable imprisonment because the poor wretch doesn't know the previous name of the city of Stalingrad. "Matryona's house" is the tale of an old peasant woman, whose tenacious struggle against cold, hunger, and greedy relatives is described by a young man who only understands her after her death.
FictionLiterary
RELEASED1963
PUBLISHERW. W. Norton & Company
LENGTH100
LANGUAGEEN
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn was a Russian novelist, dramatist, and historian. Through his writings he helped to make the world aware of the Gulag, the Soviet Union's forced labor camp system – particularly The Gulag Archipelago and One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich, two of his two best-known works. Solzhenitsyn was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1970. He was exiled from the Soviet Union in 1974 and returned to Russia in 1994. Solzhenitsyn was the father of Ignat Solzhenitsyn, a conductor and pianist. ([Source][1].) [1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aleksandr_Solzhenitsyn
"We Never Make Mistakes" Two Short Novels
by Александр Исаевич Солженицын
In "An incident at Krechetovka Station," a Red Army lieutenant named Zotov is confronted by a disturbing straggler soldier and must decide what to do with him. He ultimately sends him to a miserable imprisonment because the poor wretch doesn't know the previous name of the city of Stalingrad. "Matryona's house" is the tale of an old peasant woman, whose tenacious struggle against cold, hunger, and greedy relatives is described by a young man who only understands her after her death.
FictionLiterary
RELEASED1963
PUBLISHERW. W. Norton & Company
LENGTH100
LANGUAGEEN
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn was a Russian novelist, dramatist, and historian. Through his writings he helped to make the world aware of the Gulag, the Soviet Union's forced labor camp system – particularly The Gulag Archipelago and One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich, two of his two best-known works. Solzhenitsyn was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1970. He was exiled from the Soviet Union in 1974 and returned to Russia in 1994. Solzhenitsyn was the father of Ignat Solzhenitsyn, a conductor and pianist. ([Source][1].) [1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aleksandr_Solzhenitsyn
