Talk:Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

message: Cited to D.M. Thomas's Solzhenitsyn biography, the "On Russia and the Jews" section quotes a comment from Daniel Pipes in a review of "August 1914" printed in The New York Times of 13 November 1985, giving the impression that Pipes is the review's author. That article may be read here. It will be seen that the author is actually Richard Grenier. It will also be seen that other people quoted defend Solzhenitsyn.       ←   ZScarpia   20:46, 6 October 2019 (UTC)
replies: text: You are welcome to fix/improve it. Personally, I think that certain passages form his certain books can be regarded as antisemitic, but that's irrelevant. There was indeed a debate about it, and it should described neutrally. My very best wishes (talk) 20:52, 6 October 2019 (UTC)

text: Two more fixes. Frenkel was indeed an important figure; the book was hardly a bestseller. My very best wishes (talk) 22:47, 8 October 2019 (UTC)
thread_title:  Section: On Russia and the Jews 

message: When I read Solzhenitsyn's novel Cancer Ward, I was supprized how the Nobel Laureate in literature wrote about medical personnel who helped and treated him when he was seriously ill. Solzhenitsyn wrote (in Russian): 
"Хорошо видный Льву Леонидовичу, сидел курчавый Халмухамедов. У него был вид как будто с иллюстраций к путешествиям капитана Кука, будто он только что вышел из джунглей: дремучие поросли сплелись на его голове, черно-угольные вкрапины отмечали бронзовое лицо, в дико-радостной улыбке открывались крупные белые зубы и лишь не было - но очень не хватало - кольца в носу". 
The Google Translate generates the following translation: 
"Clearly visible to Lev Leonidovich, curly-haired Khalmukhamedov sat. He looked like something out of an illustration of Captain Cook's travels, as if he had just emerged from the jungle: dense growths intertwined on his head, black-charcoal specks marked a bronze face, a wildly joyful smile revealing large white teeth and the only thing missing - but very much missing - was a nose ring". 
I hope this has nothing to do with the racism. However, any sarkasm should remain within the boundary.Some Nuances (talk) 21:06, 27 September 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Solzhenitsyn's novel Cancer Ward 

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message: Where in the world is the obligatory list of his works, i.e. his 'Selected Bibliography' – ??? — A glaring omission for such a widely known and significant author. — Sca (talk) 20:00, 7 December 2021 (UTC)
thread_title: Bibliogrqaphy?

message: Today, an edit was made which added text to the first paragraph of the Introduction labelling The Gulag Archipelago as fiction. That is problematic for a number of reasons. Clearly, as rudimentary research shows, though a viewpoint which regards it as fiction may exist, that is not universal and so policy dictates that it should not be presented factually as such on Wikipedia (here's the Amazon webpage for the book). No sources are cited, the description having the appearance of being an interpretation of a statement by Solzhenitsyn's first wife. Also, the labelling clashes with the description of the book given in the Later years in the Soviet Union section.      ←   ZScarpia   09:49, 15 April 2022 (UTC)
replies: text: It is already mentioned in the article that Solzhenitsyn divorced Reshetovskaya in 1972 to marry another woman, and that her memoirs about him are negative in general. According to some of the biographers (for instance, a 2008 book [full text] published in the famous Russian ЖЗЛ series [Lives of the Notable People]), she was deeply worried by the divorce and the surrounding personal circumstances, she even tried to commit suicide (or at least pretended to), and by 1974 she was rather inadequate. Thus her opinions, although maybe worth mention, should be clearly marked as such and shouldn't be given too much weight.And of course the claims that "Archipelago is a fiction" and "it's his only statement about this subject" are both complete nonsense. — Mike Novikoff 20:30, 15 April 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Recent change to the Introduction: "despite only having written about it in his fictional book 'The Gulag Archipelago."