R.I.P. Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

[Bill Lumberg]

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/08/03/AR200808030 1249.html?hpid=artslot

He would have been 90 in November.

I re-read the first book of the Gulag Archipelago in May. I cannot recommend it enough. The same is true of Cancer Ward and First Circle and A Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich.

Sadly, I can no longer remember the name of my Russian literature professor who introduced me to Solzhenitsyn.

[David Fryer]

Bill Lumberg wrote:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/08/03/AR200808030 1249.html?hpid=artslot

He would have been 90 in November.

I re-read the first book of the Gulag Archipelago in May. I cannot recommend it enough. The same is true of Cancer Ward and First Circle and A Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich.

Sadly, I can no longer remember the name of my Russian literature professor who introduced me to Solzhenitsyn.

I read a bunch of his stuff in my Political Thought class. I'm sorry to hear he's gone. One of my lifes ambitions was to here him speak live but now I will never get the chance.