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Article: Solzhenitsyn: a biography.
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- National Review
- Article date:
- February 22, 1985
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THOUGH Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, one fervently hopes, has many years of creative work ahead of him, he has already been the subject of voluminous writings, extravagant eulogies, unworthy attacks, and spirited controversies. There is a special journal devoted to Solzhenitsiana. He has sturggled alone, and not without success, against a powerful and repressive regime, and discomfited some Presidents of the United States. On occasion he has scandalized the sensitivities of Western, left-leaning intellectuals, but more often heartened the spirits of believers in human dignity in his own country and throughout the world. Above all, he is a writer of enormous talent. A ...