A discussion group focussed on the life and work of Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, one of the towering moral and artistic personalities of our times. Discussion of related authors and social and political movements is also welcome.
I find myself more and more fascinated with what AIS has done with Zoya. The first impression is to dismiss her as Oleg's fleshly love interest, lower than
As I understand these terms, a reference is where a writer explicitly mentions another writer's work in his work. An allusion is where a writer puts something
I realize this news item is moving off-topic a bit for our list, but it does bear at least tangentially on recent discussion here. In recent years, McCartney
Kolya, I generally agree about the Ameriphobia comment, because it does exist. But the US is the only true superpower left, and still the world's #1 economy,
And Even Our Tears BY ARMAND MALOUMIAN [1] Translated by Edward Van Der Rhoer Originally published in Kontinent No. XX, 1979 (reprinted in Kontinent 4: