My thoughts on Solzhenitsyn's Nobel Lecture.

I must admit that while I do consider myself to be fairly well-read, I've never paid much attention to the literature of the world. I rationalized it to myself with the thinking that much of the stories' important details would be lost in translation, in addition to the knowledge that I can barely read all the books written by Americans that I want to in a given year. Solzhenitsyn's lecture has caused me to re-evaluate this line of thinking. Upon reading the lecture, I was startled at how clear the ideas behind it were. I didn't feel like there was anything I'd be missing if I hadn't heard it in its original Russian, and perhaps more importantly it made sense. I'm excited to read One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich in the coming weeks.