Near the end of The Gulag Archipelago, Solzhenitsyn includes a chapter he calls “The Muses in Gulag.” Most of the chapter describes the absurdity and uselessness of the Communist Party’s Cultural and Educational Section, but he also briefly reflects on the relationship between life in the Soviet penal colonies and the near impossibility of creating prose literature about those
They are octogenarians, nonagenarians, and even centenarians, but age does not seem to be the threshold for them to have emotional resonance among TV viewers from younger generations.