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...recent award of the Nobel Prize to Alexander Solzhenitsyn is as great a public embarrassment as Soviet leaders have felt since the awarding of the prize to Boris Pasternak in 1958. More tellingly than Pasternak, Solzhenitsyn bears witness to human degradation in the Soviet Union of the Stalin era. The world premiere of A Play by Alexander Solzhenitsyn at Minneapolis' Tyrone Guthrie Theater reveals the novelist to be a dramatist of feral power...
...place Solzhenitsyn calls "the invisible nation," where "99 men weep and one man laughs." Most of the prisoners are "politicals" whose sentences run from ten to 25 years. Their crimes? "Failure to turn informer." Reading a poem unsanctioned by the regime. Writing a letter calling Stalin "the man with the moustache" and commenting ironically on how bad his Russian is-for which "crime" Solzhenitsyn himself spent eight years in Russian prisons. The prisoners' horizon is a gray-black wall. High up on the wall, in two ominous apertures, guards stand with rifles at the ready. Acts...
...Godard cuts to a small red-haired boy dressed in red against a blue background. They feed him single words and he responds: "Aristotle"/"Red," "Circle"/"Lion." As in One Plus One's interview with Eve Democracy, we immediately begin weighing his responses for their political significance ("Revolution"/"October," "Stalin"/"Airplane.") Then, however, the problems implicit in this mode of presentation suggest themselves- problems that become more explicit in a similar interview with an old, possibly senile man. When the subject does not respond is it because the device feeding him words is faulty, or because his hearing...
...during Stalin's last illness, Soviet doctors reported officially that Big Brother was being submitted to leeches be sides other therapeutic means no less archaic. We could ask then if their intention was to cure or to kill the patient. They were in earnest. Seventeen years later a patient of mine, strong enough to survive anything, told me. having just arrived from Moscow, that last winter my Russian colleagues found nothing better for her pneumonia than syrups, poultices and those Jacks-of-all-trades of Soviet medicine-leeches...
...threats against him as by those against his great love Olga Ivinskaya, who was the model for Lara. He feared that she would be without protection if he left Russia, and those fears were borne out when she was imprisoned after his death. Solzhenitsyn, who served eight years in Stalin's prison camps, is unlikely to break in the face of threats to himself or his relations. "No one can block the road to truth," he has said. "In order to advance it, I am willing to accept even death...