Nobel Lecture Author:Alexander Solzhenitsyn Bilingual edition of Solzhenytsyn's Nobel Prize acceptance lecture (English first then Russian(not en-face). In 1972, Solzhenitsyn was unable to leave Russia to give the customary Nobel Lecture in Stockholm. "To reach this chair from which the Nobel Lecture is delivered, a chair by no means offered to every writer and only once in a lifetime - I... more » have mounted not three or four temporary steps but hundreds or even thousands, fixed, steep, covered with ice, out of the dark and cold where I was fated to survive, but others, perhaps more talented, stronger than I, perished."« less