Alexandre Soljenitsyne on the birth of "The Gulag Archipelago"

Alexandre Soljenitsyne on the birth of "The Gulag Archipelago"

Alexandre SOLJENITSYNE speaks of the birth of his book "The Gulag Archipelago": he tells that after the publication of his book "A day of Ivan Denisovich", he received a "torrent of letters" from all corners of Russia, letters in which the former prisoners of the gulag (the zeks) wanted to meet him to testify. It is thanks to this documentation that he wrote "The Gulag Archipelago". He adds "The documentation is so immense that even many volumes would not be enough to embrace it". "I hope that a time will come when in my homeland, without obstacles, the witnesses will be able to gather...and constitute a history of several volumes".

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File : Alexandre Soljenitsyne

Publication date : 9 March 1976