Alexander Solzhenitsyn Dies at 89
As has already been written up everywhere, Alexander Solzhenitsyn died on Sunday, supposedly after a stroke. Solzhenitsyn is most well known for One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich (which was part of the first ever Reading the World promotion) and the Gulag Archipelago trilogy. Russia Today has a nice overview video ...
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Solzhenitsyn, still at it
Russia’s greatest living novelist, Alexander Solzhenitsyn, is working feverishly to complete his collected works and is writing every day despite failing health, a missing vertebra and being unable to walk, his wife, Natalia, revealed yesterday. In a rare interview, Natalia Solzhenitsyn told The Observer that ...
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Interview with Alexander Solzhenitsyn
Spiegel Online has an interview with Alexander Solzhenitsyn, in which he “iscusses Russia’s turbulent history, Putin’s version of democracy and his attitude to life and death.” ...
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