Tag Archives: Alexander Solzhenitsyn

Time

Posted on February 22, 2012 by rustichello

Jorge Luis Borges, Alexander Solzhenitsyn, David Foster Wallace and Roberto Bolano walk into a bar. They order drinks and arrange their arses on stools. They begin to talk about time. Time, says Borges, you can’t beat time: it limits all … Continue reading →

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Reading Bolano’s 2666

Posted on January 2, 2012 by rustichello

As I wandered (not lonely as a cloud) through Nepal one of the heaviest luxuries in my kitbag was a copy of Roberto Bolano’s 2666. I read it through, and then I read quite a bit of it again since … Continue reading →

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i wanna be a dissident: reading Alexander Solzhenitsyn

Posted on October 1, 2011 by rustichello

Alexander Solzhenitsyn has been in my dreams a lot of late. I have read much and throughout this most mild of winters past I have fallen asleep with the gulag, the prison, Siberia and the steppe. There has been, I … Continue reading →

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