Gather
Solzhenitsyn explains that art “is like that small mirror of legend: you look into it, but instead of yourself you glimpse for a moment the Inaccessible, a realm forever beyond your reach. And your soul begins to ache . . .”18 Without the ache we would have no longing for the good, true, or beautiful. Human beings seek, but cannot possess, the “light of eternity.”19 We are finite creatures who can imagine the infinite. It is both the absence of and the desire for the eternal that gives us awareness and prevents us from disappearing into the eternal present of animal consciousness.
-Inferno Dialogues Why Americans Should Read Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn’s
In the First Circle JAMES F. PQNTUSO (SOLZHENITSYN AND
AMERICAN CULTURE THE RUSSIAN SOUL IN THE WEST Edited by David P. Deavel and Jessica Hooten Wilson)
Gather
Solzhenitsyn explains that art “is like that small mirror of legend: you look into it, but instead of yourself you glimpse for a moment the Inaccessible, a realm forever beyond your reach. And your soul begins to ache . . .”18 Without the ache we would have no longing for the good, true, or beautiful. Human beings seek, but cannot possess, the “light of eternity.”19 We are finite creatures who can imagine the infinite. It is both the absence of and the desire for the eternal that gives us awareness and prevents us from disappearing into the eternal present of animal consciousness.
-Inferno Dialogues Why Americans Should Read Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn’s
In the First Circle JAMES F. PQNTUSO (SOLZHENITSYN AND
AMERICAN CULTURE THE RUSSIAN SOUL IN THE WEST Edited by David P. Deavel and Jessica Hooten Wilson)