Geburtsdatum | Mittwoch, 11. Dezember 1918 |
Geburtsort | Kislovodsk, Soviet Russia |
Todesort | Russia |
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Beschreibung | Aleksandr Isayevich Solzhenitsyn (11 December 1918 – 3 August 2008) was a Russian novelist. One of the most famous Soviet dissidents, Solzhenitsyn was an outspoken critic of communism and helped to raise global awareness of political repression in the Soviet Union, in particular the Gulag system. |
I can say without affectation that I belong to the Russian convict world no less than I do to Russian literature. I got my education there, and it will last forever.
It is not because the truth is too difficult to see that we make mistakes... we make mistakes because the easiest and most comfortable course for us is to seek insight where it accords with our emotions - especially selfish ones.
It is the artist who realizes that there is a supreme force above him and works gladly away as a small apprentice under God's heaven.
It would have been difficult to design a path out of communism worse than the one that has been followed.
The battleline between good and evil runs through the heart of every man.
The sole substitute for an experience which we have not ourselves lived through is art and literature.
Woe to that nation whose literature is cut short by the intrusion of force. This is not merely interference with freedom of the press but the sealing up of a nation's heart, the excision of its memory.
Literature transmits incontrovertible condensed experience... from generation to generation. In this way literature becomes the living memory of a nation.
