Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn died a couple of days ago at age 89.
This was the man who stood up the Soviet Empire and was eventually exiled from his native land. That did not stop him from using his pen to fight the system that so dehumanized its people.
His last few years were lived in almost J.D. Salinger-like reclusion, which made his legend grow even more.
The irony, of course, is that he outlived the Soviet Union by almost 20 years.
Essential Reading
One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich [1962]
Cancer Ward [1967]
August 1914 [1971]
The Gulag Archipelago. Vol. 1: Parts 1 and 2 [1974]
The Gulag Archipelago. Vol. 2: Parts 3 and 4 [1975]
The Gulag Archipelago. Vol. 3: Parts 5, 6 and 7 [1978]
LINKS
NYT: Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Obituary
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