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RIP Alexander Solzhenitsyn
Posted: Sun Aug 03, 2008 4:14 pm
by Bob Juch
http://www.reuters.com/article/artsNews ... 3220080803
LONDON (Reuters) - Alexander Solzhenitsyn, the Soviet dissident writer and Nobel literature prize winner, has died aged 89, the Interfax news agency reported on Sunday.
Re: RIP Alexander Solzhenitsyn
Posted: Sun Aug 03, 2008 4:20 pm
by themanintheseersuckersuit
ya know, your avatar is not well suited to RIP posts. For Solzhenitsyn I hope he enjoyed the satisfaction of out living his enemies.
Posted: Mon Aug 04, 2008 7:09 pm
by Spock
I was going to post the RIP and I saw it was here already.
Wow-not a surprise, but what a writer and man.
I slogged my way through all 3 volumes of Gulag. IIRC-the way I saw it
1)Dealt with the trials and legal machinations.
2) Dealt more specifically with the camps-my personal favorite of the 3-There are passages in this book (and his writings in general) that I will think of fondly until Alzheimer's takes them away.
3) Dealt with the aftermath and resistance.
I also read August 1914 and November 1916. Very wordy and hard to keep straight-but IMHO-I probably will read them again (at least August)