Locating quotations by Lunacharski and Solzhenitsyn

[Lonny Harrison]

Thank you to everyone who replied with help regarding my query. 

Best wishes,
Lonny Harrison



Quoting Kevin Windle <kevin.windle at ANU.EDU.AU>:

> 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
> 
> -----Original Message-----
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> Subject: Re: [SEELANGS] Locating quotations by Lunacharski and Solzhenitsyn
> 
> 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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