calamities of exile - bookforum.com / in print
Keith Gessen on the unexpected commonalities between Said's and Solzhenitsin's intellectual obsessions, among them - naturally, inevitably, and unfortunately - Jews. Both were complex and influential men with often simplistic political prescriptions, if not altogether incorrect predictions for where the world is going. Lots of caveats come with each. We conclude that both wanted too much to have political effect over and above that inherent in their writing. Fortunately, both were failures in this department.
http://www.bookforum.com/inprint/015_04/2975- -
Yuri Kruman
J.D., 2009
Cardozo School of Law
