Frases de Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Aleksandr Isáyevich Solzhenitsyn fue un escritor e historiador ruso, Premio Nobel de Literatura en 1970. Crítico del socialismo soviético, contribuyó a dar a conocer el Gulag, el sistema de campos de trabajos forzados de la Unión Soviética en el que él estuvo preso desde 1945 hasta 1956.

Gran parte de sus trabajos fueron censurados por el aparato estatal soviético, pero su obra alcanzó un volumen notable, sobre todo Archipiélago Gulag, Un día en la vida de Iván Denísovich, Agosto de 1914 y Pabellón del cáncer. Solzhenitsyn fue galardonado con el Premio Nobel de Literatura en 1970 «por la fuerza ética con la que ha continuado las tradiciones indispensables de la literatura rusa».[1]​ Fue expulsado de la Unión Soviética en 1974, pero regresó a Rusia en 1994, tras la disolución de la Unión Soviética.[2]​ Wikipedia  

✵ 11. diciembre 1918 – 3. agosto 2008   •   Otros nombres Aleksandr Isaevič Solženicyn, Alexander Solženicyn, Aleksandr Isaevic Solzhenitsyn
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Pabellón del cáncer
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Frases célebres de Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

“«Sus progresistas llaman dictadura al régimen vigente en España. Hace diez días que yo viajo por España y he quedado asombrado. ¿Saben ustedes lo que es una dictadura? He aquí algunos ejemplos de lo que he visto. Los españoles son absolutamente libres para residir en cualquier parte y de trasladarse a cualquier parte de España. Nosotros, los soviéticos, no podemos hacerlo. Estamos amarrados a nuestro lugar de residencia por la propiska (registro policial). Las autoridades deciden si tengo derecho a marcharme de tal o cual población. También he podido comprobar que los españoles pueden salir libremente al extranjero. Sin duda saben ustedes que, debido a fuertes presiones ejercidas por la opinión mundial y por los Estados Unidos, se ha dejado salir de la Unión Soviética, con no pocas dificultades, a cierto número de judíos. Pero los judíos restantes y las personas de otras nacionalidades no pueden marchar al extranjero. En nuestro país estamos como encarcelados.
Paseando por Madrid y otras ciudades, he podido ver que se venden en los kioscos los principales periódicos extranjeros. ¡Me pareció increíble! Si en la Unión Soviética se vendiesen libremente periódicos extranjeros, se verían inmediatamente decenas y decenas de manos tendidas, luchando por procurárselos.
También he observado que en España uno puede utilizar libremente máquinas fotocopiadoras. Cualquier individuo puede fotocopiar cualquier documento depositando cinco pesetas en el aparato. Ningún ciudadano de la Unión Soviética podría hacer una cosa así. Cualquiera que emplee máquinas fotocopiadoras, salvo por necesidades de servicio y por orden superior, es acusado de actividades contrarrevolucionarias.
En su país —dentro de algunos límites, es cierto— se toleran las huelgas. En el nuestro, y en los sesenta años de existencia del socialismo, jamás se autorizó una sola huelga. Los que participaron en los movimientos huelguísticos de los primeros años de poder soviético fueron acribillados por ráfagas de ametralladoras, pese a que sólo reclamaban mejores condiciones de trabajo. Si nosotros gozásemos de la libertad que ustedes disfrutan aquí, nos quedaríamos boquiabiertos.
Hace poco han tenido ustedes una amnistía. La califican de “limitada.””

Se ha rebajado la mitad de la pena a los combatientes políticos que habían luchado con las armas en la mano (se refiere a los terroristas). ¡Ojalá a nosotros nos hubiesen concedido, una sola vez en veinte años, una amnistía limitada como la suya! Entramos en la cárcel para morir en ella. Muy pocos hemos salido de ella para contarlo».
Declaraciones en Televisión Española durante su visita a España en 1976.
Fuente: http://hispanidad.info/solyenitsin1976.htm http://www.piomoa.es/?p=594,

“La persona que no está interiormente preparada para la violencia es siempre más débil que el opresor.”

Fuente:El Archipiélago Gulag, Tusquets Editores, Barcelona, 2002.
Citas de El Archipiélago Gulag

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Frases y Citas

“Cuando la vida se teje con estambres legalistas surge una atmósfera de mediocridad moral que paraliza los más nobles impulsos humanos.”

Fragmento de A World Split Apart, discurso que pronunció en la Universidad de Harvard el 8 de junio de 1978.
Fuente: http://www.nuevoexcelsior.com.mx/index.php?m=nota&id_nota=696174

“El escritor ha de estar dispuesto a soportar la injusticia, y en eso está el riesgo de su misión.”

Fuente: http://www.noticiasliterarias.com/cultura/letras/Cultura_letras%2007.htm

“Sin el toque del aliento de Dios, sin restricciones en la conciencia humana, tanto el capitalismo como el socialismo son repulsivos.”

Original en inglés en su entrevista con Joseph Pearce en 2003: «Untouched by the breath of God, unrestricted by human conscience, both capitalism and socialism are repulsive».[Sin fuentes]

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn: Frases en inglés

“The belly is an ungrateful wretch, it never remembers past favors, it always wants more tomorrow.”

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn libro One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich

Fuente: One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich (1962)

“In different places over the years I have had to prove that socialism, which to many western thinkers is a sort of kingdom of justice, was in fact full of coercion, of bureaucratic greed and corruption and avarice, and consistent within itself that socialism cannot be implemented without the aid of coercion.”

Interview with Joseph Pearce, Sr. (2003)
Contexto: In different places over the years I have had to prove that socialism, which to many western thinkers is a sort of kingdom of justice, was in fact full of coercion, of bureaucratic greed and corruption and avarice, and consistent within itself that socialism cannot be implemented without the aid of coercion. Communist propaganda would sometimes include statements such as "we include almost all the commandments of the Gospel in our ideology". The difference is that the Gospel asks all this to be achieved through love, through self-limitation, but socialism only uses coercion. This is one point.
Untouched by the breath of God, unrestricted by human conscience, both capitalism and socialism are repulsive.

“Woe to that nation whose literature is disturbed by the intervention of power. Because that is not just a violation against "freedom of print", it is the closing down of the heart of the nation, a slashing to pieces of its memory.”

Woe to that nation whose literature is cut short by the intrusion of force. This is not merely interference with freedom of the press but the sealing up of a nation’s heart, the excision of its memory.
Variant translation, as quoted in TIME (25 February 1974).
Nobel lecture (1970)
Contexto: Woe to that nation whose literature is disturbed by the intervention of power. Because that is not just a violation against "freedom of print", it is the closing down of the heart of the nation, a slashing to pieces of its memory. The nation ceases to be mindful of itself, it is deprived of its spiritual unity, and despite a supposedly common language, compatriots suddenly cease to understand one another

“Violence, less and less embarrassed by the limits imposed by centuries of lawfulness, is brazenly and victoriously striding across the whole world, unconcerned that its infertility has been demonstrated and proved many times in history.”

Nobel lecture (1970)
Contexto: Violence, less and less embarrassed by the limits imposed by centuries of lawfulness, is brazenly and victoriously striding across the whole world, unconcerned that its infertility has been demonstrated and proved many times in history. What is more, it is not simply crude power that triumphs abroad, but its exultant justification. The world is being inundated by the brazen conviction that power can do anything, justice nothing.

“Not everything assumes a name. Some things lead beyond words.”

Nobel lecture (1970)
Contexto: Not everything assumes a name. Some things lead beyond words. Art inflames even a frozen, darkened soul to a high spiritual experience. Through art we are sometimes visited — dimly, briefly — by revelations such as cannot be produced by rational thinking.
Like that little looking-glass from the fairy-tales: look into it and you will see — not yourself — but for one second, the Inaccessible, whither no man can ride, no man fly. And only the soul gives a groan...

“Of course, one cannot declare that only my faith is correct and all other faiths are not. Of course God is endlessly multi-dimensional so every religion that exists on earth represents some face, some side of God.”

Interview with Joseph Pearce, Sr. (2003)
Contexto: Of course, one cannot declare that only my faith is correct and all other faiths are not. Of course God is endlessly multi-dimensional so every religion that exists on earth represents some face, some side of God. One must not have any negative attitude to any religion but nonetheless the depth of understanding God and the depth of applying God's commandments is different in different religions. In this sense we have to admit that Protestantism has brought everything down only to faith.
Calvinism says that nothing depends on man, that faith is already predetermined. Also in its sharp protest against Catholicism, Protestantism rushed to discard together with ritual all the mysterious, the mythical and mystical aspects of the Faith. In that sense it has impoverished religion.

“We, holding Art in our hands, confidently consider ourselves to be its masters”

Nobel lecture (1970)
Contexto: We, holding Art in our hands, confidently consider ourselves to be its masters; boldly we direct it, we renew, reform and manifest it; we sell it for money, use it to please those in power; turn to it at one moment for amusement — right down to popular songs and night-clubs, and at another — grabbing the nearest weapon, cork or cudgel — for the passing needs of politics and for narrow-minded social ends. But art is not defiled by our efforts, neither does it thereby depart from its true nature, but on each occasion and in each application it gives to us a part of its secret inner light.

“A man is happy so long as he chooses to be happy.”

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn libro Pabellón del cáncer

Fuente: Cancer Ward

“When you're cold, don't expect sympathy from someone who's warm.”

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn libro One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich

Fuente: One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich

“It is in the nature of the human being to seek afor his actions.”

Fuente: The Gulag Archipelago, 1918-1956: An Experiment in Literary Investigation V-VII

“If one is forever cautious, can one remain a human being?”

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn libro The First Circle

Fuente: The First Circle

“If we live in a state of constant fear, can we remain human?”

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn libro The First Circle

Fuente: The First Circle

“Archeologists have not discovered stages of human existence so early that they were without art.”

Nobel lecture (1970)
Contexto: Archeologists have not discovered stages of human existence so early that they were without art. Right back in the early morning twilights of mankind we received it from Hands which we were too slow to discern. And we were too slow to ask: FOR WHAT PURPOSE have we been given this gift? What are we to do with it?
And they were mistaken, and will always be mistaken, who prophesy that art will disintegrate, that it will outlive its forms and die. It is we who shall die — art will remain. And shall we comprehend, even on the day of our destruction, all its facets and all its possibilities?

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