Wednesday, May 19, 2004

A Solzhenitsyn Essay I Hadn't Read, Until Today

As I mentioned in a post previously, I’ve read quite a bit of Solzhenitsyn’s work.  But today, while following some links on an unrelated subject, I fortuitously stumbled upon, perhaps, Solzhenitsyn’s last essay penned in the Soviet Union.  It is titled “Live Not By Lies." Though Solzhenitsyn wrote the essay as a rebuff to his fellows Russians, the essay presents thoughts that are applicable to today, no matter if you live in the East or the West.  An excerpt I particularly enjoyed.

"So in our timidity, let each of us make a choice: Whether consciously, to remain a servant of falsehood--of course, it is not out of inclination, but to feed one’s family, that one raises his children in the spirit of lies--or to shrug off the lies and become an honest man worthy of respect both by one’s children and contemporaries."

Need I say, read the whole thing?

Via Orthodoxy Today.

Posted by John Venlet on 05/19 at 09:11 AM
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