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In "An Incident at Krechetovka Station," a Red Army lieutenant is confronted by a disturbing straggler soldier and must decide what to do with him. "Matryona's House" is the tale of an old peasant woman, whose tenacious struggle against cold, hunger, and greedy relatives is described by a young man who only understands her after her death.


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  • Paperback: 144 pages
  • Publisher: W.W. Norton & Co. (December 2003)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 039331474X
  • ISBN-13: 978-0393314748
  • Product Dimensions: 8.2 x 5.5 x 0.4 inches
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4.0 out of 5 stars 2 extremely powerful parables of the human spirit, July 26, 1999
These two great stories are written in that harsh realistic style so charateristic of Solzhenitsyn's works. Both stories are important on two fronts: They are both allow for primary-source insight into what many Westerners have a skewed perception of (the poverty and oppression in Stalanist Russia), and secondly, both stories present severe criticsm of human nature in such grand metaphoric form as to allow them to penetrate the reader's own soul. The phrase "thought provoking," does these stories no justice, the parables are better described as painfully applicable.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Two compelling short novels from a master author, November 30, 2003
This review is from: "We Never Make Mistakes": Two short novels (Hardcover)
This is a collection of two short novels written by Nobel Prize-winning author Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn that appeared in the January 1963 issue of a Soviet literary magazine called "Novy Mir."

The first novel, "An Incident at Krechetovka Station," centers around Lieutenant Zotov who works at one of the railway stations ensuring men and provisions make it to their proper destinations. One stormy night, full of wind and cold, an army straggler appears at the station, and it's up to Zotov to determine if he is who he says and what should be done with him. A fine novel about the idiosyncracies of war and justice.

In the second novel, "Matryona's House," a young teacher is placed out in the country and finds lodging with an old peasant woman. Through the cold winter, he watches her put up withe cold, hunger and greedy relatives, never once asking for anything in return. It isn't until after she has died that he truly understands her. A powerful tale about what remaining true to yourself and to your ideals.

Both novels make for great, worthwhile reading.

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5.0 out of 5 stars powerful, July 17, 2009
Two powerful short stories...One about war injustice and unfair system that treats people based on suspicion that has no real roots...The red army lieutenant, Zotov,sends a straggler to miserable fate just because the guy didn't know what the Stalingrad previous name was?...The one answer he received upon inquiring of the guy's fate was"don't worry we'll take care of your Tveritinov,We never make mistakes"...

the second novella is the tale of Matryona;an old poor peasant widow,narrated by her roomate; she helps everybody for free and dies in misery because of the greed of her relatives who complained after her death that "she never accumulated property against the time of her death"...

those were written beautifully similar to his magnificent novella "One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich"..
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