The Nobel Prize in Literature 1970
"for the ethical force with which he has pursued the indispensable
traditions of Russian literature"
When Alexandr Solzhenitsyn was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1970, he was already an outcast in his native country, the Soviet Union. After the novel "One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich" and a few short stories he had not been permitted...more* * * Harvard Class Day Afternoon Exercises, Thursday, June 8, 1978 R E V I E W
'One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich' Every good reader has a book. You own it as much as the author does. You knew it was yours the first time you read it. Again and again over the years, you've turned to this book when you needed solace, inspiration, or perspective. Each time you've read it, each time you have opened at random to a page, you've found something that speaks directly to you. It's your book, after all. Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn's One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich is my book... more* * *
Tribute from BB in India
Russian literature lost it living legend, Solzenitsyn, yesterday. Imprisoned, exiled and scorned during the Communist era, he died happily as he wanted – in new Russia, in the summer, in the countryside – to touching tributes by Russians and rest of the world. .....He excoriated communist materialism and capitalist materialism, and was steadfast to artistic truth and enduring human spirit – in the traditions of the Russian Orthodox Church, Russian patriotism, ideologically close to Putin and Gorbachov. I still remember the sensations of reading “A Day” and “Cancer Ward” – bleak, slow, ordinary - but how could someone be so authentic, so true – how could he make me, far in away in tropical India, feel as one with his characters ?! Labels: Aleksandr Isayevich Solzhenitsyn |
