Nobel Prizes are awarded in December. 45 years ago the prize for literature went to Alexander Solzhenitsyn ‘for the ethical force with which he has pursued the indispensable traditions of Russian literature.’ This included his story One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich
Alyosha the Baptist has been a hero of mine since student days.
He appears as a character, minor at first, in Alexander Solzhenitsyn’s novella of life in a Soviet labour camp, One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich.
