The Nobel Lecture on Literature

38 pp. 8vo.. Translated from the original Russian by Thomas P. Whitney. "Here in permanent form is the lecture Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn had hoped to deliver in person on receiving the award of the 1970 Nobel Prize in Literature. A work of art in itself, a work of art and passion, it is truly a sacred text, surely as noble an utterance and as exalted a defense of civilization as man has anywhere given voice to. Here Solzhenitsyn declares his unwavering belief in the power of art to unite peoples, to avert catastrophe and to help mankind understand that 'the only salvation of humanity lies in everyone concerning himself with everything everywhere.'"