Literature will Save the World

 I have this small book I've been reading.  It's Alexander Solzhenitsyn's Nobel Lecture.  He won the Nobel prize for literature in 1970.  

Solzhenitsyn posits that mankind will always have conflict.  The only saving factor to have peace is justice.  And the best place to understand justice is religion.  Alexander Solzhenitsyn was a devout Russian Orthodox.

And the only way to win against the secular world and its intrusive evil is art, in particular, literature.  He should know.  He was in trouble more than once in his own beloved Russia.

I think that world literature has the power in these frightening times to help mankind see itself accurately despite what is advocated by partisans and by parties. It has the power to transmit the condensed experience of one region to another, so the different scales of values are combined ...