Posted by
vonryansexpress on Friday, August 08, 2008 1:54:30 AM
Some foreign individuals are laced tight to other nations. One cannot speak of
de Tocqueville without invoking America or Joseph Conrad without England or Pablo Picasso without France or Pearl Buck with China. So it should be with Solzhenitsyn and our America.
Solzhenitsyn was a prophet in his time. He will not need generations to be recognized. The secularists will snipe that he was more Rasputin than Rastapovich but his work will out and his place in the pantheon survive.
Who can forget how we all felt when we learned that the great dissident was among us. What person that heard his 1978 address did not pause and reflect and feel that precience was revealed.
May the good God bring to American classrooms a passion for the work of Alexsander Solzhenitsyn. If he is not read, discussed and felt in the years ahead, our children will not have the counsel of a soul rich and textured.
If there is any American that has not consumed "The First Circle" let those pages be your first effort before any other book, film or activity that precedes November.
There are many pillars supporting the Russian Academy. The passing of this prophet leaves one such column snapped in half.