We could also mention the rejection of Madame Bovary by his contemporaries, who considered it an immoral novel, with a style that was too dry… Le Figaro wrote about Madame Bovary: "Monsieur Flaubert is not a writer!"

"Misomusia", the hatred of art, consists of diverting art from the realm of art, of uprooting it from the aesthetic realm. When we see today the different "works" that are offered to us, in public exhibitions, or even in literature, we perfectly understand what Milan Kundera meant.

According to Solzhenitsyn, faith is a bulwark against totalitarianism. It can exist without formal education, but not without nurture. If a child grows up surrounded by nature, they are nourished by a spiritual feeling, for there are higher forces to which one can connect.

On March 1, 2022, the Italian writer Paolo Nori denounced the cancellation by the University of Milan-Bicocca of his course dedicated to the Russian writer Dostoevsky[3]. A curious coincidence, because if there is one literature that denounces the totalitarian temptation, it is that of Dostoevsky, as Koestler understood very well, and who even alluded to it in Darkness at Noon: "The question is whether the student Raskolnikov had the right to kill the old pawnbroker. He is yo