The Claremont Review of Books in 2024: Gary Saul Morson on the bravery of the Soviet dissidents. An excerpt:
Bukovsky managed to do so by using his imagination. “I set myself the task of constructing a castle in every detail…. I carefully cut each individual stone,” planned the tapestries in all detail, invited guests, and browsed through old books. “I even knew what was inside those books. I could even read them.” The castle preserved Bukovsky’s sanity because “it saved me from apathy, from indifference to living,” and from the emptiness that annihilates the self.
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