SOLZHENITSYN Alexander.
The decline of courage.
The Beautiful Letters
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| N° d'inventaire | 25437 |
| Format | 12.5 x 19 |
| Détails | 72 p., paperback. |
| Publication | Paris, 2020 |
| Etat | Nine |
| ISBN | 9782251200460 |
On June 8, 1978, Alexander Solzhenitsyn told students at Harvard University:
"No, I cannot recommend your society as an ideal for the transformation of our own. (.) We had placed too much hope in political and social transformations, and it turns out that what is most precious to us is being taken away from us: our inner life. In the East, it is the Party fair that tramples it underfoot, in the West the Trade fair: what is frightening is not even the fact of the fragmented world, but that the principal parts of it are suffering from a similar disease."
"No, I cannot recommend your society as an ideal for the transformation of our own. (.) We had placed too much hope in political and social transformations, and it turns out that what is most precious to us is being taken away from us: our inner life. In the East, it is the Party fair that tramples it underfoot, in the West the Trade fair: what is frightening is not even the fact of the fragmented world, but that the principal parts of it are suffering from a similar disease."
"No, I cannot recommend your society as an ideal for the transformation of our own. (.) We had placed too much hope in political and social transformations, and it turns out that what is most precious to us is being taken away from us: our inner life. In the East, it is the Party fair that tramples it underfoot, in the West the Trade fair: what is frightening is not even the fact of the fragmented world, but that the principal parts of it are suffering from a similar disease."