SOURCE: “The Subtext of Christian Asceticism in Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn's One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich,” in Slavic and East European Journal, Vol. 42, No. 4, Winter, 1998, pp. 661-76.
In the following essay, Kobets examines elements of Christian asceticism in One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich. According to Kobets, “While the novella contains a variety of coded and overtly stated themes relating to Christian cosmogony, mythology, ontology, and ritual, the most dominant theme is that of Christian asceticism.”
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