Literature · Reflection
ALEKSANDR SOLZHENITSYN ~ THE IMPORTANCE OF EXPERIENCE….
“Own only what you can always carry with you: know languages, know countries, know people. Let your memory be your travel bag.”
17 July 2012
Aleksandr Isayevich Solzhenitsyn ; 11 December 1918 – 3 August 2008) was a writer, who, through his often-suppressed writings, helped to raise global awareness of the gulag, the Soviet Union’s forced labor camp system – particularly in The Gulag Archipelago and One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich, two of his best-known works. Solzhenitsyn was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1970. He was expelled from the Soviet Union in 1974 but returned to Russia in 1994 after the Soviet system had collapsed
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