Literature transmits incontrovertible condensed experience... from generation to generation. In this way literature becomes the living memory of a nation. (Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn)

Literature transmits incontrovertible condensed experience... from generation to generation. In this way literature becomes the living memory of a nation.

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

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