You're welcome! I was just reading in today's Times about Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn's "Gulag Archipelago". There is a new edition out with a foreword from Jordan Peterson (don't know who he is?) and was wondering if you've read it? Many years ago I read his "Cancer Ward" but have not read "Gulag". Sounds a fascinating book that I think I will order.
Yes, I have read Gulag; I read it years ago, as an undergrad, with rapt attention and bottoms fascination.
And I would still think that, along with The First Circle, - which I think superb - his best book - (and some of the chapters in Cancer Ward), it is probably among the best things he wrote. (I think One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich the most important book Solzhenitsyn wrote, politically and historically - but not necessarily his best).
However, Gulag is relentlessly depressing - this is an exceptionally bleak, meticulously researched and dark work.
No, I don't know who Jordan Peterson is either.
