А.И. Солженицын

The article gives A.I. Solzhenitsyn’s reflections on Western journalism during his exile (1974–1994). His observations reflect similarities of methods and principles of work in Western and Soviet mass media.

Skaftymov’s definition of «an artist and a human being as one entity» is directly applicable to the creative method of A.I. Solzenitsyn. Deep understanding of an artistic research, aesthetic approach of a realism writer corroborate the scientific thoughts of A.P. Skaftymov, who predetermined the characteristics of the new writer type and the new prose type of the XXth century.