Friday, 4 January 2019

In Memoriam


"Woe to that nation whose literature is cut short by the intrusion of force. This is not merely interference with freedom of the press but the sealing up of a nation's heart, the excision of its memory."

Alexander Solzhenitsyn, novelist, Nobel laureate (1918-2008). Nobel lecture in Literature 1970.

The entire lecture is available here, in both English and Russian

Daffodils

  Fists balled in the hollow of the eyes Sat in the old, creaky wicker chair The scream stuck in the pharynx Blue-overalls despair taking ho...