Spy Car Posted August 4, 2008 Share Posted August 4, 2008 I'm very sad to learn of the passing of Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn. While I hardly saw eye-to-eye with him on many points, he was also one of my most beloved twentieth century authors and thinkers. The quality of his mind was extraordinary, as was his courage in facing Soviet oppression. His novel Cancer Ward hast to be on a short-list of my favorite works of serious fiction. He was a monumental intellectual figute and he will be sadly missed. Bill Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jenny in Atl Posted August 4, 2008 Share Posted August 4, 2008 Yes, NPR did a great obit piece on him yesterday. He was a very complex and interesting man. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Spy Car Posted August 4, 2008 Author Share Posted August 4, 2008 Yes, NPR did a great obit piece on him yesterday. He was a very complex and interesting man. I didn't get to hear it, but I'll look online. Thanks for the mention! Bill Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mom2legomaniacs Posted August 4, 2008 Share Posted August 4, 2008 OH no! I hadn't heard. I had a period of fascination with him and his works for a couple of years. Thanks for sharing. I will have to go look up the obit. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pqr Posted August 4, 2008 Share Posted August 4, 2008 I loved his works, he was a man of great courage. Archipelago was superb as was A Day in the Life of.... Currently I am reading Nikolai Tolstoy's "Stalin's Secret War" which gives a more succinct but perhaps even more brutal vision of the camps and the Stalinist Era. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Colleen in NS Posted August 4, 2008 Share Posted August 4, 2008 I'm very sad to learn of the passing of Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn. While I hardly saw eye-to-eye with him on many points, he was also one of my most beloved twentieth century authors and thinkers. The quality of his mind was extraordinary, as was his courage in facing Soviet oppression. His novel Cancer Ward hast to be on a short-list of my favorite works of serious fiction. He was a monumental intellectual figute and he will be sadly missed. Bill Oh, I hadn't heard yet! I've haven't read any of his books yet (I will someday), but I had a leader in a missions organization who met with him one time. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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