We Never Make Mistakes

Alexander Solzhenitsyn; translated by Paul Blackstock

We Never Make Mistakes confirms Solzhenitsyn’s reputation as an outstanding writer by bringing together his two most famous novellas, Incident at Krechetovka Station and Matryona’s House, both of which were first published in the prestigious Russian literary magazine Novy Mir in 1963. Both stories form part of the larger canvas in which Solzhenitsyn describes the havoc wrought on human dignity by Stalin’s bureaucrats and secret police. Krechetovka Station is especially powerful in its portrayal of a young Soviet officer stranded at a railway junction just behind the front line during Hitler’s offensive on Russia.

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genre	Literature and Fiction » General Literature
publisher	Sphere Books, Ltd.
publish date	1972
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