December 2008
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Michael Burleigh
Solzhenitsyn as seen by adults
Thursday 7th August 2008
Today's Daily Mail has this fine appreciation of Solzhenitsyn by Stephen Glover http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1042458/STEPHEN-GLOVER-A-literar...
He was also discussed with informed respect by Simon Sebag Montefiore on last night's News Night. I believe this magazine will be publishing an appreciation by historian Robert Conquest.
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Vernon Howell
August 7th, 2008
1:08 PM
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Did you see Andrew O'Hagan's glib and silly piece in the Telegraph? He is a smug bore at the best of times, but that was a truly execrable, adolescent piece.
mburleigh
August 7th, 2008
7:08 PM
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Yes Vernon I did. The above post is my response, or ratrher, that of two people who understand what Solzhenitsyn signified.
jlinville
August 9th, 2008
9:08 AM
9:08 AM
A tribute by Robert Conquest can be read at the Wall Street Journal on line. Worth the trip there.
mburleigh
August 10th, 2008
12:08 PM
12:08 PM
Thanks jlinville- its also reproduced in today's Sunday Times. I was asked to write it myself, but I didn't think I could do Solzhenitsyn justice as a novelist.
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