[Yardstick]

I read Gulag Archipelago a few months ago and was pleasantly surprised at how well written it was. Solzhenitsyn has an excellent dry wit. He's as Russian as Russian can be, finding humor in the darkest of situations. You can really see how a film like Brazil owes a tip of the hat to him.

[Ferris]

When the individual can be forcibly sacrificed to the collective, such as what now exists in this country, nothing but death and destruction await..

[Argus]

You're right. Those who don't read him are missing the great mordant humorist in Solzhenitsyn, not just in Gulag but the novels like First Circle as well. He's a worthy successor to Gogol on that score.