Solzhenitsyn Nobel Prize Lecture

Solzhenitsyn Nobel Prize Lecture
by Alexander Solzhenitsyn

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Author: Alexander Solzhenitsyn
Edition: Paperback
Published: 1973
ISBN: 0950296015
Number of pages: 55
Publisher: Stenvalley Press

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Book Review: He alone escaped to tell thee
Summary: 5 Stars

Solzhenitsyn is the voice from there, from that other place, from the Gulag. He is the one who shouted out and whose shouts were heard by the millions. So in this Nobel Prize Acceptance speech the truly effective part is when he speaks of being there, and what it took for him to get to where he is when he makes the speech.

"In order to mount this platform from which the Nobel lecture is read, a platform offered to far from every writer and only once in a lifetime, I have climbed not three or four makeshift steps, but hundreds and even thousands of them; unyielding, precipitous, frozen steps, leading out of the darkness and cold where it was my fate to survive, while others - perhaps with a greater gift and stronger than I - have perished. Of them, I myself met but a few on the Archipelago of GULAG1, shattered into its fractionary multitude of islands; and beneath the millstone of shadowing and mistrust I did not talk to them all, of some I only heard, of others still I only guessed. Those who fell into that abyss already bearing a literary name are at least known, but how many were never recognized, never once mentioned in public? And virtually no one managed to return. A whole national literature remained there, cast into oblivion not only without a grave, but without even underclothes, naked, with a number tagged on to its toe. Russian literature did not cease for a moment, but from the outside it appeared a wasteland! Where a peaceful forest could have grown, there remained, after all the felling, two or three trees overlooked by chance."
This to my mind the truly meaningful part of Solzhenitsyn's long and often complicated speech.
When he wanders considering the true meaning and value of Art .When he focuses on Dostoevsky's conception of the saving role of Beauty- he tries the patience. But when he tells of what it was to be in that other world he connects with and moves us.

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Bilingual edition. Complete text in both Russian and English.

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