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Literature that is not the breath of contemporary society, that dares not transmit the pains and fears of that society . . . loses the confidence of its own people, and its published works are used as wastepaper instead of being read.

Source: Open letter, 16 May 1967, to the Fourth Soviet Writers' Congress (published in Problems of Communism, July-Aug. 1968;
-- Alexander Solzhenitsyn, (Dec 11 1918-2008), Russian novelist; He is well known for his books describing forced labor camps, e.g., One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich, 1962.

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