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Alexandr Solzhenitsyn - Nobel Lecture

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The Nobel Prize in Literature 1970 was awarded to Aleksandr Isayevich Solzhenitsyn "for the ethical force with which he has pursued the indispensable traditions of Russian literature"

Navigate to: Summary -- Facts -- Nobel Prize lecture -- Biographical -- Bibliography -- Article -- Banquet speech -- Nobel diploma -- Nominations -- Other resources Presentation Speech English Russian (pdf) Nobel Lecture in Literature 1970 * 1 Just as that puzzled savage who has picked up – a strange cast-up from the ocean? – something unearthed from the sands? – or an obscure object fallen down from the sky? – intricate in curves, it gleams first dully and then with a bright thrust of light. Just as he turns it this way and that, turns it over, trying to discover what

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