Frasi di Alexandr Isajevič Solženicyn
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Aleksandr Isaevič Solženicyn è stato uno scrittore, drammaturgo e storico russo.

Inizialmente marxista critico dello stalinismo, poi divenuto conservatore e anticomunista, attraverso i suoi scritti ha fatto conoscere al mondo i Gulag, i campi di lavoro forzato per i dissidenti del sistema sovietico dove fu rinchiuso per molti anni. Gli è stato assegnato il Premio Nobel per la letteratura nel 1970 e quattro anni dopo è stato esiliato dall'Unione Sovietica. Ritornò in Russia nel 1994, dopo la caduta del sistema sovietico. Nello stesso anno fu eletto membro dell'Accademia serba delle arti e delle scienze nel Dipartimento lingua e letteratura.

✵ 11. Dicembre 1918 – 3. Agosto 2008   •   Altri nomi Aleksandr Isaevič Solženicyn, Alexander Solženicyn, Aleksandr Isaevic Solzhenitsyn
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“Bisogna saper migliorare con pazienza quanto ogni giorno ci offre.”

Origine: Da Dalla Vandea ai gulag: Il filo rosso di Solzenicyn http://www.avvenire.it/Cultura/Dalla+Vandea+ai+gulag+Il+filo+rosso+di+Solzenicyn_200909280755226430000.htm, Avvenire, 27 settembre 2009.

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Alexandr Isajevič Solženicyn Frasi e Citazioni

“Si può rimpiangere un regime che scriveva dio con la minuscola e Kgb maiuscolo?”

citato in Antonio Socci, Nostalgici del Dio minuscolo http://www.ilgiornale.it/interni/nostalgici_dio_minuscolo/29-12-2005/articolo-id=53339, il Giornale, 29 dicembre 2005

“Erano queste le nostre camere della morte. Ci mancava il gas per fare le camere a gas.”

The Gulag Archipelago, 1918-1956: An Experiment in Literary Investigation, Books III-IV

Alexandr Isajevič Solženicyn: Frasi in inglese

“Untouched by the breath of God, unrestricted by human conscience, both capitalism and socialism are repulsive.”

In his interview with Joseph Pearce. " An Interview with Alexander Solzhenitsyn http://www.catholiceducation.org/articles/arts/al0172.html." St. Austin Review 2 no. 2 (February, 2003).
Interview with Joseph Pearce, Sr. (2003)

“Call no day happy 'til it is done; call no man happy til he is dead.”

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn libro The Oak and the Calf

Solzhenitsyn here seems to be paraphrasing Sophocles who expresses similar ideas in Oedipus Rex. This is also a direct reference to Plutarch's line, "call no man fortunate until he is dead," from his "Parallel Lives".
The Oak and the Calf (1975)

“A man should build a house with his own hands before he calls himself an engineer.”

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn libro One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich

One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich (1962)

“A man with two trades to his credit can easily learn another ten.”

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn libro One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich

One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich (1962)

“One artist sees himself as the creator of an independent spiritual world; he hoists onto his shoulders the task of creating this world, of peopling it and of bearing the all-embracing responsibility for it; but he crumples beneath it, for a mortal genius is not capable of bearing such a burden. Just as man in general, having declared himself the centre of existence, has not succeeded in creating a balanced spiritual system. And if misfortune overtakes him, he casts the blame upon the age-long disharmony of the world, upon the complexity of today's ruptured soul, or upon the stupidity of the public.
Another artist, recognizing a higher power above, gladly works as a humble apprentice beneath God's heaven; then, however, his responsbility for everything that is written or drawn, for the souls which perceive his work, is more exacting than ever. But, in return, it is not he who has created this world, not he who directs it, there is no doubt as to its foundations; the artist has merely to be more keenly aware than others of the harmony of the world, of the beauty and ugliness of the human contribution to it, and to communicate this acutely to his fellow-men. And in misfortune, and even at the depths of existence — in destitution, in prison, in sickness — his sense of stable harmony never deserts him.
But all the irrationality of art, its dazzling turns, its unpredictable discoveries, its shattering influence on human beings — they are too full of magic to be exhausted by this artist's vision of the world, by his artistic conception or by the work of his unworthy fingers.”

Nobel lecture (1970)

“Why does the (U.S.) State Department decide who should get Sevastopol?”

Interview With Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn on Ukraine (May 1994)

“War is the price we pay for living in a state. Before you can abolish war you will have to abolish all states. But that is unthinkable until the propensity to violence and evil is rooted out of human beings.”

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn The Red Wheel

"Father Severyan", in November 1916: The Red Wheel: Knot II (1984; translation 1999).
Contesto: At no time has the world been without war. Not in seven or ten or twenty thousand years. Neither the wisest of leaders, nor the noblest of kings, nor yet the Church — none of them has been able to stop it. And don't succumb to the facile belief that wars will be stopped by hotheaded socialists. Or that rational and just wars can be sorted out from the rest. There will always be thousands of thousands to whom even such a war will be senseless and unjustified. Quite simply, no state can live without war, that is one of the state's essential functions. … War is the price we pay for living in a state. Before you can abolish war you will have to abolish all states. But that is unthinkable until the propensity to violence and evil is rooted out of human beings. The state was created to protect us from evil. In ordinary life thousands of bad impulses, from a thousand foci of evil, move chaotically, randomly, against the vulnerable. The state is called upon to check these impulses — but it generates others of its own, still more powerful, and this time one-directional. At times it throws them all in a single direction — and that is war.

“I believe that world literature has it in its power to help mankind, in these its troubled hours, to see itself as it really is, notwithstanding the indoctrinations of prejudiced people and parties.”

Nobel lecture (1970)
Contesto: I believe that world literature has it in its power to help mankind, in these its troubled hours, to see itself as it really is, notwithstanding the indoctrinations of prejudiced people and parties. World literature has it in its power to convey condensed experience from one land to another so that we might cease to be split and dazzled, that the different scales of values might be made to agree, and one nation learn correctly and concisely the true history of another with such strength of recognition and painful awareness as it had itself experienced the same, and thus might it be spared from repeating the same cruel mistakes.

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