[xzins]

Good post, Mar. I, too, have long admired Solzhenitzyn and have read (a long time ago, now) a good deal of his material. I continually carry a newspaper clipping in my bible from the Jun 27, 1978 Cincinnati Enquirer. It is written by William Rusher and is entitled: "Solzhenitsyn: I have seen the future and it does not Work."

It's an awesome short piece based on an address at Harvard University when Solzhenitzyn was a 'celebrity.' Solz. wore out his welcome in that one visit to Harvard. It's getting ragged now, but its words still jump off the pages at me.

The West can survive only by reversing the process: "It is imperative to review the table of widespread human values. Its present incorrectness is astounding....Is it true that man is above everything? Is there no Superior Spirit above him? The world is approaching a major turn in history, equal to the turn from the Middle Ages to the Renaissance. It will exact from us a spiritual upsurge...to a new level of life where our physical nature will not be cursed as in the Middle Ages but, even more important, our spiritual being will not be trampled upon as in the Modern Era."

[MarMema]

I am a fan of his as well, and have both books, Landmarks and From Under the Rubble. Astonishing reading material from a long ago time but one from which we can learn today.

I recently discovered the writings of Alexander Schmemann, mentioned in one link above. And I do enjoy Dostoevsky a great deal.

Your posts are among my favorites here on FR.
Let us, together, "swim against the tide".

[MarMema]

Oh, I forgot to mention, I have read that address at Harvard many times. It must have taken tremendous courage and faith for him to say those things at Harvard.

+Memory Eternal, Alexander.