Comments on: Solzhenitsyn, funnyman. http://orangeraisin.wordpress.com/2010/09/29/solzhenitsyn-funnyman/ Writer, animator, musician, and now jerk-with-a-blog. Sat, 04 May 2013 02:10:34 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Steve P in La Crosse, Wis. http://orangeraisin.wordpress.com/2010/09/29/solzhenitsyn-funnyman/#comment-247 Thu, 30 Sep 2010 17:34:40 +0000 http://orangeraisin.wordpress.com/?p=519#comment-247 Not a yuk-a-minute comic writer to be sure … but he can afford the drollness of one has not just survived, but outlived his tormentors!

It’s not exactly a *comic* scene, but there is a sequence in “In the First Circle” that manages to portray Stalin himself as lonely as burdened — almost a sympathetic character.

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