Its title character works on a wall alongside the Latvian joker Kilgas.
A character in this novel compares guessing to stabbing water with a pitchfork and helps its protagonist by retrieving tarpaper to patch up a window. A film director in this novel who uses his connections to enable himself to keep his fancy fur cap is called Cesar. Alexander Tvardovsky wrote a preface for this work when Novy Mir published it in 1962. Its title character works on a wall alongside the Latvian joker Kilgas. Alyosha the Baptist sleeps on a bunk adjacent to that of this novel's title character, who serves under Tyurin in work gang 104. For 10 points, name this Alexander Solzhenitsyn  novel about Shukhov's experience of a gulag.
A character in this novel compares guessing to stabbing water with a pitchfork and helps its protagonist by retrieving tarpaper to patch up a window.
One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich [or Odin den' Ivana Denisovicha]