"Eddie Willers" of Adventures Of A Third World Shopkeeper points out the passing of one of the 20th Century's heroes: Aleksandr Isayevich Solzhenitsyn.
I remember first reading One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich while I was in the Air Force. I had been impressed by Witness, but Solzhenitsyn spoke directly to me in the simple language of freedom. I devoured the rest of his then-published books and waited for each new book. He helped me realized why I had picked the winning side in defeating the greatest evil the world had yet seen.
His death strikes me as a bit anticlimactic. He saw the demise of the system that had enslaved his countrymen, but he never did see the moral world he has imagined in its place. Like Tolstoy, he was a prophet -- doomed to see only part of a better world.
Dead at 89. RIP.
I remember first reading One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich while I was in the Air Force. I had been impressed by Witness, but Solzhenitsyn spoke directly to me in the simple language of freedom. I devoured the rest of his then-published books and waited for each new book. He helped me realized why I had picked the winning side in defeating the greatest evil the world had yet seen.
His death strikes me as a bit anticlimactic. He saw the demise of the system that had enslaved his countrymen, but he never did see the moral world he has imagined in its place. Like Tolstoy, he was a prophet -- doomed to see only part of a better world.
Dead at 89. RIP.
