
12 Dic 2018
«Do not forget your lineage, your past, study what concerns your grandparents and ancestors, do your best to strengthen his memory": This is how Pavel Florenskij wrote about the importance of memory and the past a few years before he died, shot by the Soviet regime for alleged "counter-revolutionary activities". From Florenskij's reflections emerges the importance of remembering what has been, as in the case of the centenary of his birth, which took place on December 11th 1918, of the life and thought of Alexander Solzhenitsyn That, because of his experience and his works, he can be considered in all respects one of the last Western authors, today almost completely extinct, not just genuinely free, but defenders of authentic freedom. First of all, it is necessary to note the indifference with which the Western world in general and Europe in particular has approached such an anniversary, thus proving at least two characteristics of the current cultural scenario to be quite worrying: first of all a general disregard for history, neglect which entails the possibility of repeating the mistakes and even horrors of the past; secondly, in the face of a continuous exaltation of freedom, a lack of knowledge of its real nature and of its greatest masters, among whom Solzhenitsyn can and must be included, is demonstrated. Read More