One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich: Q&A Episode
Close Reads Podcast
Goldberry Studios
4.4 • 823 Ratings
🗓️ 3 October 2023
⏱️ 61 minutes
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Summary
As is our custom here at Close Reads, we’re here to answer your questions. So in this episode, David, Heidi, and Tim discuss questions about hope in Ivan Denisovich; the value of work in the story; the book’s structure; and much, much more. Happy listening!
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, I'm David Kern. I'm Heidi White. And I'm Tim McIntosh. And you are listening to Close |
| 0:08.2 | Reeds, a podcast for The Incurable Reader on which we are discussing one day in the life of Ivan |
| 0:14.5 | Denisovich, Alexander Solzhenitin's novel. And in particular, we are discussing and I guess |
| 0:20.3 | attempting to answer your questions on this book. |
| 0:23.6 | It's our last conversation on this book. |
| 0:25.7 | And up next, we have a very different book totally. |
| 0:30.4 | It's going to be The Moving Toy Shop, which is an English mystery novel with a great deal of humor to it. |
| 0:36.0 | I always say that it's a little bit of Agatha Christie, a little bit of P.G. Woodhouse. |
| 0:39.1 | So it's a very different tone than what we've got going on here in Ivan Denisovich, |
| 0:43.1 | which isn't to say that this isn't a good or even uplifting book, but it's just... |
| 0:46.8 | It's not funny. |
| 0:48.1 | Different experience. It is not funny. It's not funny. That is true. |
| 0:52.6 | We'll just dig right into these questions. |
| 0:56.4 | And Tim, I'm going to start with you on this one here. |
| 0:59.7 | And I'm just digging right in because we're all busy and I want to make sure we maximize our time here and get a chance to talk about as many these as we can. |
| 1:07.1 | Hannah, Tim, has a question here where she says, |
| 1:11.1 | I vaguely remember Tim saying in the winnowing podcast for 2023 books, |
| 1:14.9 | so the one we did a year, |
| 1:15.9 | released a year ago, |
| 1:16.7 | that he really loved this book. |
| 1:18.6 | And to put it bluntly, |
| 1:19.8 | I did not love this book, |
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