Solzhenitsyn at the grocer
Once I went to the gocer and he gave me the spice into a paper, written in French.
Curiously, I opened the paper and found out it’s a page of the book “Cancer Ward”, whose the author is Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn.
For the information, Aleksandr Isayevich Solzhenitsyn is a Russian novelist born in 1918, a war decorated but deported to Siberian Gulag for critizing Stalin in a letter; he was infected by a cancer and then moved to a hospital in Kazakhistan. The “Cancer Ward” is a description of the awful state of hospitals in the USSR, it was one of his works that allowed him to win a Nobel Prize in 1970.
Anyway, when I saw that page, I started to wonder about the reason that lead the grocer to make a such great work a simple instrument to put his goods:
Was he against that anti-communist movement? Was he doubting about the Nobel commitee’s credibility? Did he write a book that was not nominated for the Nobel prize?
Finally, I decided to throw the paper: I don’t want to be involved into those intellectual conflicts.
