Alexander Solzhenitsyn, Russian literary giant and dissident, has died. Judging from the photo above (taken in 1976) , it's hard to believe he managed to hang on this long.
He wrote that while an ordinary man was obliged “not to participate in lies,” artists had greater responsibilities. “It is within the power of writers and artists to do much more: to defeat the lie!”
Obits are everywhere, but the Times has posted a nice, long one on its site, despite the strangest transliteration of Osip Mandelshtam I have ever seen.
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