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sartresue
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04 Aug 2008, 10:23 am

Ghoul-lag topic

I had been reading his books since I was 12 years old.

Link: Death of a gulag survivor


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05 Aug 2008, 10:13 am

*sigh*

One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich
now reaches its sunset. We'll miss you, Alexander
Isayevich.



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05 Aug 2008, 3:12 pm

Douglas_MacNeill wrote:
*sigh*

One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich
now reaches its sunset. We'll miss you, Alexander
Isayevich.


That was the first of his books I read in my high-school years then The Gulag Archipelago,
The Oak And The Calf, and The First Circle.


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05 Aug 2008, 7:58 pm

"Hats off, gentlemen, a genius."

He was kicked out of the USSR, his books were banned there. And yet he had the chutzpah to tell us about the human soul, and not about politics...

One of the rare ones ...


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06 Aug 2008, 12:16 am

A conflicted figure fo' sure. Hated Western Culture 'bout as much as he hated Communism. Exposed the brutal Gulag system to the world community but later endorsed Putin and his aims of re-centralizing (totalitarianizing) Russia. And all this not counting his direct contribution to *literature*, which be tenuous at that, tho... Ivan D. be alright.

But whateva...ain't no further need to speak ill of the dead.



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12 Aug 2008, 9:55 am

I "met" him once, when my mother sent me to this fancy camp to learn Russian for the Summer (I've since forgotten 99 %), and he was speaking at a lecture at the end of our stay.

It was a small school, and after his speech, he came to eat with us at a picnic style dinner and I said I was honored to meet him and he talked about the importance of education for our youth. He was very passionate about certain things...

Sad that he died. :cry: