Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Quotes about Literature

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The sole substitute for an experience which we have not ourselves lived through is art and literature.

The sole substitute for an experience which we have not ourselves lived through is art and literature.

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Art, Literature, Substitutes

Literature transmits incontrovertible condensed experience... from generation to generation. In this way literature becomes the living memory of a nation.

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Memories, Generations, Literature

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.

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Pain, People, Literature

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.

Literature becomes the living memory of a nation.

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Memories, Literature, Nations

Thus, literature, together with language, preserves and protects a nation's soul.

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Soul, Together, Literature

Periods of rapid and fundamental change were never favourable for literature. Significant works, have nearly always and everywhere been created in periods of stability, be it good or bad.

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Fundamentals, Literature, Significant

Source: www.independent.co.uk

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Quotes about Literature

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