A corrective essay on the image of Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn. Difficult to judge this without reference to the many important but untranslated works: it's a reminder of how limiting a monoglottal understanding of the world can be.
Posted by Alan Allport at October 30, 2004 05:14 AMAn excellent essay! I'd been unfamiliar with any such criticism of Solzhenitsyn, but the First Things article matches the picture I'd formed of him from his own books.
Posted by: Ben Brumfield at October 30, 2004 07:51 PM