A note which I am taking the liberty of forwarding to the list... Many thanks for your help. The robot tells me that I have successfully subscribed....
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Draugsvold@xxxxxxxx.xxx
Oct 16, 1998 6:52 am
Can anyone tell me who is publishing October 1916, the second wheen of the Red Knot? Second question does anyone know when the other two books in the series...
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Stephen C. Petrica
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Oct 16, 1998 8:53 am
... Red Knot?<< According to amazon.com Farrar, Stauss, and Giroux is publishing all 1040 pages of it. For some reason, though, under the title *November...
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Ottar Draugsvold
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Oct 16, 1998 9:22 am
Thanks for the information...
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Stephen C. Petrica
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Oct 16, 1998 7:39 pm
Forwarded to the list with Dr Winningham's permission. Please feel free to comment! Steve Petrica ... I'm indebted to you for initiating me into the intrigue...
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Stephen C. Petrica
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Oct 18, 1998 1:35 am
... I sent the Thatcher reference to your office FAX. You know what I like about her? She is not afraid to use words like courage, justice, evil--strong...
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michael nicholson
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Oct 20, 1998 3:54 pm
On Red Wheel. The last part before AIS discontinued it came out in Russian in 1991. That made four `knots', comprising 10 vols. of his collected works. The...
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Ottar Draugsvold
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Oct 20, 1998 8:18 am
I appreciate the information. Thanks...
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Maryl L Winningham, A...
drmlw@xxxxxx.xxxx
Oct 20, 1998 1:07 pm
Please forgive my ignorance, but does anyone have a list of all Solzhenitsyn's writings available in English? Which ones are currently "in print"? I had one...
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Ottar Draugsvold
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Oct 20, 1998 4:50 pm
The attached list is, I believe, complete as I write. November 1916 is due out next month from Farrar, Straus & Giroux. I hope this is helpful. Regards, ...
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eric@xxxxxx.xxxxxxxxx...
eric@xxxxxx.xxxxxxxxx...
Oct 21, 1998 3:44 am
Maryl Winningham asks if AIS's Harvard address remains in print. Last I knew, the answer was no. However, the July/August 1998 issue of _The American...
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Maryl L Winningham, A...
drmlw@xxxxxx.xxxx
Oct 21, 1998 2:45 pm
Thanks to you both for your response. I am always amazed by what is allowed to go out of print. Then again, truth has rarely been a "best seller." I have...
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Ottar Draugsvold
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Oct 21, 1998 3:26 pm
I'm glad to have been of service. I too think Solzhenitsyn one of the great moral leaders of the century. However, most people, including those who comment...
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Maryl L Winningham, A...
drmlw@xxxxxx.xxxx
Oct 22, 1998 1:59 pm
Ottar! You know, I find that remarkable! I never really thought of him as a political figure at all--it never occurred to me. True leadership always has a...
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Ottar Draugsvold
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Oct 22, 1998 4:42 pm
I thought you might enjoy reading an introduction I wrote on Solzhenitsyn. It comes from my book, Nobel Writers on Writing, scheduled for release in 1999....
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Maryl L Winningham, A...
drmlw@xxxxxx.xxxx
Oct 24, 1998 5:54 am
Thank you Ottar! When is your book to be published? Who is the publisher? I was intrigued by your comparison between Tolstoy and Solzhenitsyn: "While Leo...
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Ottar Draugsvold
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Oct 24, 1998 9:17 am
Glad you enjoyed the piece. The publisher is McFarland and date in 1999 yet uncertain....
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Stephen C. Petrica
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Oct 24, 1998 1:21 pm
The discussion of AS as a political or moral leader brought to mind this passage from his "Address to the International Academy of Philosophy," appended to...
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eric@xxxxxx.xxxxxxxxx...
eric@xxxxxx.xxxxxxxxx...
Oct 27, 1998 1:32 pm
Reuters reports that Solzhenitsyn gave a short speech in Moscow yesterday at a ceremony unveiling a monument to Chekhov. The article devotes a couple of...
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Maryl L Winningham, A...
drmlw@xxxxxx.xxxx
Oct 30, 1998 2:36 pm
Remarkable! It's a real challenge to underestimate the capacity of the western media for disseminating drivel and irrelevancies. (1) Russia is a place of many...
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D. Vos
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Nov 9, 1998 2:06 am
I am curious to hear what you folks think the future will bring for Solzhenitsyn's works. The blurbs on some of the paperback editions of his books hail him as...
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Ottar Draugsvold
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Nov 9, 1998 7:49 am
The works will endure for two reasons. Nowhere else, at least in English, can you find such an "on the ground" portrayal of the Stalinist period in Soviet...
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Maryl L Winningham, A...
drmlw@xxxxxx.xxxx
Nov 9, 1998 12:41 pm
I agree with you, Ottar. It is not uncommon, historically, for great moral leaders to sink into oblivion for awhile, only to spring forth again a generation...
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eric@xxxxxx.xxxxxxxxx...
eric@xxxxxx.xxxxxxxxx...
Nov 9, 1998 1:22 pm
_March 1917_, the enormous third "knot" in _The Red Wheel_, has received some superlative reviews in France. English-language translation of AIS lags well...
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Phil Levy
phillevy@xxxxx.xxxx
Nov 10, 1998 3:13 am
Esteemed Fellows, In Webster's Ninth, definition #5 of canonizing is "to treat as illustrous, preeminent, or sacred." Because his works are like elegies, I...
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Phil Levy
phillevy@xxxxx.xxxx
Nov 10, 1998 3:13 am
Esteemed Fellows, In Webster's Ninth, definition #5 of canonizing is "to treat as illustrous, preeminent, or sacred." Because his works are like elegies, I...
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Stephen C. Petrica
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Dec 15, 1998 12:00 am
From an AP report in the New York Times, Saturday, December 12, 1998: President Boris N. Yeltsin tried to honor Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn [photo inserted] on...
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Ottar Draugsvold
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Dec 15, 1998 7:36 am
Have anyone seen a review of November 1916? If there is one up on the web please direct me to it. Thanks Ottar...
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Edward E. Ericson, Jr.
eric@xxxxxx.xxxx
Dec 15, 1998 12:29 pm
_The New Criterion_ will be carrying a dandy review of _November 1916_ by Daniel Mahoney--in the Feb. 1999 issue, I think. _The Wall Street Journal_ carried a...
