Solzhenitsyn dies at 89

Useless · 2008-08-04, 10:36 AM

http://www.reuters.com/article/newsO...31313220080803

http://www.iht.com/articles/2008/08/...zhenitsynB.php -- Eight page article.

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Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, whose stubborn, lonely and combative literary struggles gained the force of prophecy as he revealed the heavy afflictions of Soviet Communism in some of the most powerful literary works of the 20th century, died late on Sunday at the age of 89 in Moscow.

I believe that this will be the least viewed thread ever posted on GG&Jim unless a bunch of people mistakenly think that Solzhenitsyn was a hockey player.

justbondage · 2008-08-04, 11:09 AM

I was aware of his work, and its acclaim but haven't read anything yet.

RIP.

SheepGuy · 2008-08-04, 01:06 PM

I read the Gulag Archipelago years ago. It was a great book but didn't get into his hockey career enough.
A fascinating life though. RIP

docholly · 2008-08-04, 02:32 PM

Solzhenitsyn?? I always thought he was with the Russian Ballet and had defected.

Just kidding.. I'm a bit more literate than that. I know that he spoke at Harvard one year and almost caused future President Regan to piss himself.

Either way I'm sure if I could ever get enthralled in his work, it would be a great read. Maybe they'll have a graphic novel version.

RIP..

digifan · 2008-08-04, 02:43 PM

I had no idea he was alive...

Greenguy · 2008-08-04, 03:20 PM

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Originally Posted by Useless Warrior

...unless a bunch of people mistakenly think that Solzhenitsyn was a hockey player.

I thought he was a banned submitter

I graduated from High School in 1989 if that means anything

Mr. Plow · 2008-08-04, 03:52 PM

He was amazing. Stood up to the Russian government and was the first round draft pick in 1976

I'll have to look more into his work, he was a wild guy.

Useless · 2008-08-04, 04:18 PM

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Originally Posted by digifan

I had no idea he was alive...

Oddly enough, that's what shocked me too. It bothered me to not realize that he was alive all this time.

I've only read a couple of his short novels. He's not what I consider to be a pleasurable read. Not a happy-go-lucky kind of guy. But he's one of those authors who feel like you should read because of who he is and what he experienced. But I was raised by a father who read Tolstoy and Solzhenitsyn while he tended a paper machine in a mill.

Mr. Plow · 2008-08-04, 04:28 PM

8 years in a gulag prison can make a guy kind of serious

virgohippy · 2008-08-05, 04:42 PM

I heard it on NPR.

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