Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Quotes:
Ocupation: Novelist
Life: December 11, 1918 - August 3, 2008
Birthday: December 11
Death: August 3
Literature that is not the breath of contemporary society, that dares not transmit the pains and fears of that society . . . loses the confidence of its own people, and its published works are used as wastepaper instead of being read.
source: Open letter to the Fourth Soviet Writers' Congress (16 May 1967) as translated in "Solzhenitsyn: A Documentary Record" edited by Leopold Labedz, "The Struggle Intensifies", 1970.
topic: Pain, People, Literature, Contemporary Literature, Contemporary Society
