CRITICAL CONTROVERSY WITH A.I. SOLZHENITSYN AT THE PAGES OF “SYNTAX”

The article reveals a controversy which took place at the pages of Russian Literary magazine “Syntax” at the middle of 1980-th between A.I. Solzhenitsyn and Russian intellectuals abroad. The magazine took a liberal position and defended a right of righters to express their own views on various facts about life in Soviet Union and abroad, among them the tasks of Russian Literature. The article presents a wide range of points of view of the critics of “Syntax” - from those expressed sharp criticism to the author of “The Archipelago Gulag”, reproaches against his “authoritarianism” to the recognition of relative rightness of “Vermont exile”.

magazine “Syntax”, A.I. Solzhenitsyn, art criticism, Russian literature, aesthetic position