Quotes by Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

For us in Russia communism is a dead dog. For many people in the West, >>

Literature that is not the breath of contemporary society, that dares >>

Everything you add to the truth subtracts from the truth. >>

Quotations about Literature

It is the story-teller's task to elicit sympathy and a measure of unde >>

A great number of the disappointments and mishaps of the troubled worl >>

If literature isn't everything, it's not worth a single hour of someon >>

Literature that is not the breath of contemporary society, that dares not transmit the pains and fears of that society, that does not warn in time against threatening moral and social dangers -- such literature does not deserve the name of literature; it is only a façade. Such literature loses the confidence of its own people, and its published works are used as wastepaper instead of being read.

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander