--- Speaking of Sol., I loved Limonov's assessment in Diary of a Loser:
Alexander Solzhenistyn, my double compatriot, deserves to be drowned in a prison latrine. "Why?" you ask. For his lack of brilliance, for the nagging dullness of his characters, for the army-prison-slavophile jackets with which he dressed all of his characters (and would dress the entire Russian nation, if he had his way), for the one-dimensional thoughts, for this whole preachy, provincial, stale and cheerless picture of the world -- yes! For all this into the latrine he goes.
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