Solzhenitsyn dies

[Reba]

MOSCOW, Russia (AP) -- Alexander Solzhenitsyn, the Nobel Prize-winning Russian author whose books chronicled the horrors of dictator Josef Stalin's slave labor camps, has died of heart failure, his son said Monday. He was 89...

Beginning with the 1962 short novel "One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich," Solzhenitsyn devoted himself to describing what he called the human "meat grinder" that had caught him along with millions of other Soviet citizens: capricious arrests, often for trifling and seemingly absurd reasons, followed by sentences to slave labor camps where cold, starvation and punishing work crushed inmates physically and spiritually....

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"Ivan Denisovich" made a great impression on me as a teenager when I read it in 1966.

 

[Chase]

I was studying literature in college in the '70s when Alexander Solzhenitsyn's Gulag Archipelago trilogy rocked the world of letters. A truly great writer who went against the system to tell his stories. They're hard reading, but worth the effort. Rest in piece, Alexi.

 

[Liebling:-)))]

I learn about his death thru new TV and share his unforgetable history for long 30 minutes today.

R.I.P Alexander Solzhenitsyn