Books like We Never Make Mistakes: Two Short Novels

I am still surprised that Solzhenitsyn was such a good writer. Of these two short novellas I particularly liked the first which out of very unpromising material weaves an elegant and moving story about the confused state of mind likely to have existed here and there in the Soviet Union in 1941. The country had been drawn into war and the novella sucessfully and interestingly dissects the thoughts of just one young man. However, through his work and circumstances we learn so much about confusion in the whole country. It was Solzhenitsyn's literary genius to make the man work for the railways.The other novella is good too, maybe more readily and universally understood, about human greed. In a way it is shocking to realise that even in the 1953 Russia material possessions counted for something.The only thing marring this slim volume is the translation. My copy was published in 1974 when the fashion was evidently to add translator's comments in square brackets - very distracting.