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Aug. 4th, 2008 11:58 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
somedaybitchhmmm.
how eerily ironic: author of 'The Gulag Archipelago' dies.
i remember that book on the shelves over my dad's desk in his office at home. it was well-turned when i was a kid. tried to read it a few times in my junior high/high school years but it wasn't until college that i managed to get through it. Dad talked about it a lot with me, usually when family history came up...narrow escapes from occupied countries left him feeling kindred, i think.
Solzhenitsyn was a man of true courage and principle, and the world is a lesser place for his loss. the almost greater shame is how few today even know who he was, what he endured and what his writings personally cost him.
how eerily ironic: author of 'The Gulag Archipelago' dies.
i remember that book on the shelves over my dad's desk in his office at home. it was well-turned when i was a kid. tried to read it a few times in my junior high/high school years but it wasn't until college that i managed to get through it. Dad talked about it a lot with me, usually when family history came up...narrow escapes from occupied countries left him feeling kindred, i think.
Solzhenitsyn was a man of true courage and principle, and the world is a lesser place for his loss. the almost greater shame is how few today even know who he was, what he endured and what his writings personally cost him.
