What Man Lives By

Abstract

There is probably nothing astonishing in the fact that the works of Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, which he wrote at different times over many years, and which have poured forth to us in a broad stream, are just what is wanted in these anxious and troubled times. Attempts to develop a new social self-awareness and self-determination have essentially brought forth a whole range of problems—social, spiritual/intellectual, and moral—which have gripped the writer in his creative endeavors. These problems, which continue to be acutely and painfully agonizing, were never solved by him nor could they have been, but the writer has broached them honorably as he has recounted what the country and the people have lived through, their tragedy.