Locating quotations by Lunacharski and Solzhenitsyn

[Kevin Windle]

The lines from Arkhipelag GULag are in Vol. 1 of the YMCA edition, pp. 175-76. But the idea is developed at a later point, in similar words (Vol. 2, pp. 602-03 - Part 4, Chapter 1, as Irene Zohrab has mentioned).

Kevin Windle

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Hi,

Solzhenitsyn's text:

Åñëè  á ýòî òàê ïðîñòî! --  ÷òî  ãäå-òî åñòü  ÷åðíûå ëþäè,  çëîêîçíåííî
òâîðÿùèå ÷åðíûå äåëà, è  íàäî  òîëüêî îòëè÷èòü èõ îò îñòàëüíûõ è óíè÷òîæèòü.
Íî  ëèíèÿ,  ðàçäåëÿþùàÿ äîáðî è  çëî, ïåðåñåêàåò ñåðäöå êàæäîãî  ÷åëîâåêà. È
êòî' óíè÷òîæèò êóñîê ñâîåãî ñåðäöà?..


I found it in this website: http://lib.ru/PROZA/SOLZHENICYN/gulag.txt. I typed 
in the word search the word "linia" (in Russian).

Liz
Indiana University



Quoting Lonny Harrison <lonny.harrison at UTORONTO.CA>:

> Dear Colleagues,
> 
> I am searching for the original Russian sources of the following quotations.
> 
> Any help to locate them would be greatly appreciated.
> 
> The first is a statement regarding F. M. Dostoevski by Anatoli Lunacharski. 
> Does anyone know where it is excerpted from?
> 
> The second is excerpted from the Gulag Archipelago. Could anyone familiar
> with 
> the text please point me toward the precise section where it occurs?
> 
> Many thanks,
> Lonny Harrison  
> 
> 
> "The study and understanding of Dostoevsky becomes a passion...
> that only deepens [the convalescent's] insanely heady faith
>  that their illness is health, or their vain hope of finding a cure
>  for this illness in mysticism, patriotism, self-analysis, self-exaltation
>  or self-denigration. For them the involvement with Dostoevsky
>  is equivalent to putting a millstone around their necks,
>  one that compels them, after leaping into the cesspool, to remain there.
> [...] He who learns from Dostoevsky cannot help the construction of society."
> 
> Anatoli Lunacharski, Soviet Commissar of Education, 1929. 
> 
> 
> "If only there were evil people somewhere insidiously
>  committing evil deeds, and it were necessary only
>  to separate them from the rest of us and destroy them.
> But the line dividing good and evil cuts through the
>  heart of every human being. And who is willing
>  to destroy a piece of his own heart?" 
> 
> Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, The Gulag Archipelago.
> 
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