From Instauration Magazine (thanks for the reference, Babu)


http://www.instaurationonline.com/pdf-files/Instauration-1976-01-January.pdf

Memorable literary criticism also lights up the dark and glowering firmament of The Gulag Archipelago. Solzhenitsyn's four spheres of art are an insightful attempt to categorize the four principal schools of writing. In Sphere l,the upper stratum describes, portrays or ponders the upper stratum. In Sphere 2, the upper stratum depicts the lower stratum. Sphere 3 is the reverse of Sphere 2. I n Sphere 4 the lower stratum concerns itself with itself.
The upper stratum of society, according to Solzhenitsyn, has the leisure and the means to master artistic techniques. When these advantages are combined with
talent, the result is art, sometimes great art, but only if the artist has suffered profoundly or is the possessor of an irrepressible spir.itual drive. In general, however, the ease of upper class life brings contentment, which is the deadly enemy of spiritual striving. The result is that Sphere 1 contains within it a plethora of artistic distortions and morbid, self-important "schools" -all of which usually amount to "sterile flowerings."
Sphere 2 ("looking down from above") offers great moral prom ise because its works are the creations of good people whose sense of justice displaces their soporific prosperity. But the great fault of this school is its "incapacity to understand." The more indignant and fearful such authors become, the more they miss the I iterary or artistic mark. "They simply could not climb into the pelts of the lower stratum."
Sphere 3 writers ("Iooking up from below") suffer from inexperience, lack of education and interruptions caused by economic considerations. But there is an even greater and more destructive force at work. The artist, poisoned by envy and hate or spoiled by servile fawning, can only produce bogus art or propaganda.
From Sphere 4 comes the world's folklore. The simple, suffering peasant or soldier speaks directly to fellow sufferers. Intensity and honesty of feeling make up for artistic inexperience, and centuries of refining and improvement, as the prose or poetic narrative passes from mouth to mouth, smoothe away the rough edges. On the other hand, what starts out as "written literatu re" in this sphere always fails because it is too embryonic and confused. For reasons stated earlier, the individual has not been able to master his craft.
Solzhenitsyn writes that for the first ime in history the upper and lower strata of a social order merged in the Russian concentration camps, and so for the first time the upper stratum was finally able to understand the lower stratum. "Only now could an educated Russian write about an enserfed peasant from the inside because he himself had become a serf." Since almost all the incarcerated upper stratum Russians in the camps died, "The unprecedented philosophy and literature were buried under the iron crust of the Archipelago."

Nothing like a white nationalist magazine to reveal your true preferences for privatizing the universe.


Joe Sobran

So I take it you aren't ignoring my posts?

Yes, Sobran acknowledged the racialist bent of the mag but also their willingnes to publish articles and ideas ignored by the MSM.

You didn't like the points Solzhenitsyn made about writers/artists?

Joe Sobran was a great writer and spoke truth to power. RIP.

because he questions the never ending holocaust publicity while the far greater slaughter of Christians by Jewish led commies is ignored.

But some religions are more important than others, some are trashed and others Must Not Be Questioned.