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What Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Taught Me About History And Literature

by Madeleine Rose Jones | Dec 11, 2020 | History, literature, Philosophy

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn wrote The Gulag Archipelago. It’s a big book, but the Nobel-Prize winner soaks his words with wisdom and knowledge born from melancholy. When I think of Solzhenitsyn, I get sad. Not because I think he has a sad legacy, or that his life...