Volume 45, Number 19 · December 3, 1998
The Solzhenitsyn Archipelago
By Michael Scammell
Alexander Solzhenitsyn:A Century in His Life
by D.M. Thomas
St. Martin's, 583 pp., $29.95
In June 1978, some twenty-two thousand people sat or stood in the rain at Harvard's commencement ceremonies to listen to a keynote speaker denounce them as lacking in courage, morally adrift, and self-deluded. The speaker, whose identity had been kept secret until just two days beforehand, was the celebrated Russian novelist Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, and the title he chose for his impassioned lecture was 'A World Split Apart.'
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