“In 1950, on a long camp winter day, I was dragging a stretcher with a partner and thought: how to describe our whole camp life? In fact, it is enough to describe just one day in detail ... and the day of the simplest hard worker, and our whole life will be reflected here. And you don’t even need to escalate any horrors, you don’t need it to be some kind of special day, but an ordinary one, this is the very day that years are made up of. I conceived this way, and this idea remained in my mind, for nine years I did not touch it, and only in 1959, nine years later, I sat down and wrote. camps and exile, Alexander Isaevich Solzhenitsyn moved from Kazakhstan to Central Russia, began to teach mathematics to village children in the Vladimir region, a year later he settled in Ryazan, where he taught physics and astronomy at secondary school No. 2. The story was written there, in May-June 1959 .“I didn't write it for long, only 40 days, less than a month and a half. It always turns out like this if you write from a dense life, the life of which you know too much and ... you only fight off excess material, just so that the excess does not fit, but to accommodate the most necessary. Wrote - and hid . And he ventured to propose to the press - only more than two years later, after Khrushchev's attack on Stalin's "personality cult". In November 1961, Moscow friends took the manuscript (printed on both sides, without margins and spaces between the lines, the title is Shch-854, and without the author's name) to Novy Mir. The editor of the prose department, Anna Samoilov-na Berzer, immediately understood the value of this amazing novelty and handed it over to the editor-in-chief of the magazine, Alexander Trifonovich Tvardovsky, with the words: “The camp through the eyes of a peasant, a very popular thing.” (“In six words it was impossible to get more accurately into the heart of Tvardovsky,” Solzhenitsyn later estimated.)© ℗ A. Solzhenitsyn (heirs)© ℗ IP Vorobyov V. A.© ℗ ID SOYUZ

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