GreatWriters

Maybe hubris, maybe poetic truth:

:"A great writer is, so to speak, a second government in his country. And for that reason no regime has ever loved great writers, only minor ones."

... from The First Circle, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, 1918-2008.

(see also BuildingBookWeb (2 Feb 2001), ...)

TopicLiterature - TopicWriting - Datetag20030102

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