The self-knowledge Solzhenitsyn sought is not merely an account of his own soul but of “the truth of the soul and the order of things.”
David P. Deavel
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Feb 25, 2021
It is easy to forget that the Cold War was a time when government strategy involved novels, poetry, and literary criticism—and writers mattered.
David P. Deavel teaches at the University of St. Thomas in Houston, Texas, and is a Senior Contributor at The Imaginative Conservative. He is co-editor of Solzhenitsyn and American Culture: The Russian Soul in the West, available now in paperback from Notre Dame Press.