When governments, or other institutions, want to control what people think and say, they censor what people write and speak. The stories in this collection are about various forms of censorship.
Given where he was living, in a Siberian forced-labor camp, Ivan Denisovich had a pretty good day.
Facing work in a new location, which has no shelter and no way to keep warm at all, Ivan Denisovich - prisoner C854 - welcomes being ill.
As the zeks endure a seemingly endless march, the sounds of their feet on the snow tell us how cold it really is.
The camp makes a profit from the prisoners' work, but nothing is shared with the zeks.
The zeks on Ivan Denisovich's team devour their lunch soup (and sop it up with stale bread saved from an earlier meal).
As the zeks construct their building, disagreements erupt over proper procedures.
It is dark before Ivan Denisovich's team can return from their work at the power station.
Receiving a package from home is a great event for a prisoner, but every single item in the parcel is inspected by a guard before the prisoner can cla...
Even in the GULAG, men stash their precious belongings.
Learn more about the author, James Joyce and his work Ulysses.
CAUTION: SOME OF THE WORDS AND SCENES IN THIS CLIP - ABOUT THE NOVEL ULYSSES, BY JAMES JOYCE - MAY BE OFFENSIVE TO SOME PEOPLE.
Learn about this famous author through the work of Ten Great Writers of the Modern World - James Joyce's Ulysses"
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