Author’s name:
Cherif Abdelmadjid
Abstract:
The creative dialogue between François Mauriac (1885–1970) and Alexander I. Solzhenitsyn (1918–2008) is primarily a dialogue between the West and the East about the spiritual life of man and his morality. The similarity of their artistic worlds is based on the following founda-tions: man and faith, freedom and conscience, justice and mercy, and power and human na-ture. Various events that took place in Russia at that time worried Mauriac, who was extreme-ly concerned about the fading of the Christian faith in the West. The work of his Russian con-temporaries, B. L. Pasternak, A. A. Akhmatova, and A. I. Solzhenitsyn, seemed to him to be the key for the preservation of Russian culture.
| Section | CROSS-CULTURAL ASPECTS OF LITERARY DISCOURSE |
| DOI: | 10.47388/2072-3490/lunn2021-55-3-120-127 |
| Downloads | 496 |
| Key words | creativity; conscience; man; spiritual life; technology; poetics; Nobel Prize; faith; novel. |