And We Are Frightened

One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich
by Alexander Solzhenitsyn, translated by Ralph Parker
Dutton, 160 pp., $3.95

One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich
by Alexander Solzhenitsyn, translated by Max Hayward and Ronald Hingley
Praeger, 210 pp., $3.95

The simultaneous appearance of two translations of Solzhenitsyn’s remarkable concentration-camp novel climaxed a rat-race between rival publishers. Dutton touted its entry as the only “authorized” version, while Praeger countered with a “press-release” stating that its version was NOT authorized by Moscow and denouncing Ralph Parker as “a fervent apologist for the Sovi...