1. What does Solzhenitsyn mean by "internal affairs"?
2. How did writers of the world influence Solzhenitsyn's career?
3. What connection does Solzhenitsyn see between lies and violence?
A: Solzhenitsyn sees that violence can only be concealed by lies, and lies can only be maintained by violence. In other words, he sees that lies and violence depend on each other.
Read the speech. Do not post this again until you can propose answers to these questions.
http://www.jrbenjamin.com/2013/08/...apart-aleksandr-solzhenitsyns-nobel-speech
Try this link for a copy of the lecture.
http://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/laureates/1970/solzhenitsyn-lecture.html
Both links provide a copy of the lecture.
When I clicked your link, Reed, this is what I found.
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What you were looking for doesn't exist or isn't here anymore. We are sorry :("
I figured out the answers to questions #2 and #3, but I still can't form an answer for #1.
That's weird about the link I posted. Apparently Bing's posted link is wrong in some way.
Victoria, I'm not sure what to tell you on question 3. You have posted the question and "A. ..." Is this multiple choice? Is there a B and a C to choose from?
By "internal affairs," he means those things that individual countries choose to make their business -- and only their business. They deny that any writing has meaning outside of the home country. Solzhenitsyn claims that literature belongs to the world, not just one nation.
"Thus I have understood and felt that world literature is no longer an abstract anthology, nor a generalization invented by literary historians; it is rather a certain common body and a common spirit, a living heartfelt unity reflecting the growing unity of mankind. State frontiers still turn crimson, heated by electric wire and bursts of machine fire; and various ministries of internal affairs still think that literature too is an "internal affair" falling under their jurisdiction; newspaper headlines still display: "No right to interfere in our internal affairs!" Whereas there are no INTERNAL AFFAIRS left on our crowded Earth! And mankind's sole salvation lies in everyone making everything his business; in the people of the East being vitally concerned with what is thought in the West, the people of the West vitally concerned with what goes on in the East."