"Once you give up survival at any price, 'then imprisonment begins to transform your former character in astonishing ways." It teaches friendship. You learn the most valuable thing is "the development of the soul."
And so Sozhenitsyn concluded, "Bless you, prison, for having been in my life."
David Brooks Sidney Awards, Part 1, including Gary Saul Morson's essay, "Solzhenitsyn's Cathedrals" in The New Criterion, NYTimes, 12/16/2017
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