We have ceased to see the purpose : essential speeches of Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn / edited by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn and Ignat Solzhenitsyn.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Solzhenitsyn, Aleksandr, 1972- editor.

Solzhenitsyn, Ignat, editor.

Series:

The Center for Ethics and Culture Solzhenitsyn Series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Conduct of life.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (233 pages)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Notre Dame, Indiana : University of Notre Dame Press, [2024]

Summary:

This collection brings together ten of Nobel Prize-winner Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn's most memorable and consequential speeches, delivered in the West and in Russia between 1972 and 1997. Following his exile from the USSR in 1974, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn lived and traveled in the West for twenty years before the fall of Communism allowed him to return home to Russia. The majority of the speeches collected in this volume straddle this period of exile, contemplating the materialism prevalent worldwide--forcibly imposed in the socialist East, freely chosen in the capitalist West--and searching for humanity's possible paths forward. In beautiful yet haunting and prophetic prose, Solzhenitsyn explores the mysterious purpose of art, the two-edged nature of limitless freedom, the decline of faith in favor of legalistic secularism, and--perhaps most centrally--the power of literature, art, and culture to elevate the human spirit. These annotated speeches, including his timeless "Nobel Lecture" and "Harvard Address," have been rendered in English by skilled translators, including Solzhenitsyn's sons. The volume includes an introduction to the speeches, brief background information about each speech, and a timeline of the key dates in Solzhenitsyn's life.

Contents:

Cover

Title Page

Copyright

Contents

Translated from the Russian

Editor's Note

Acknowledgments

"Not Everything Can Be Named" Ignat Solzhenitsyn

Speeches

Nobel Lecture (1972)

An Orbital Journey (1974)

If One Doesn't Wish to Be Blind (1976)

The Shallowing of Freedom (1976)

Harvard Address (1978)

Templeton Lecture (1983)

Playing Upon the Strings of Emptiness (1993)

We Have Ceased to See the Purpose (1993)

A Reflection on the Vendée Uprising (1993)

The Depletion of Culture (1997)

Brief Background

Solzhenitsyn Timeline

Notes

Index.

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ISBN:

9780268208622

026820862X

9780268208615

0268208611