Volume 38, Number 4 · February 14, 1991
Native Son
By David Remnick
'Kak nam obustroit' Rossiya?' ('How Shall We Organize Russia?') 1990, and Literaturnaya Gazeta, September 19, 1990.
by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
On a summer afternoon in 1988, Elena Chukovskaya was leading a tour through the small museum in Peredelkino dedicated to the life and work of her grandfather, the children's book writer and literary scholar, Kornei Chukovsky. One of the tourists fixed on a small photograph of Solzhenitsyn. 'Why doesn't Solzhenitsyn just come home?' he asked. 'What is he waiting for?'
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