Shalamov Varlam - Kolyma Stories - Paperback

Binding: Paperback
Description: A masterpiece of 20th - century Russian literature now in its first complete English translation One of the greatest Russian writers of short stories chronicles life in a Soviet gulag drawing on his own years in a USSR prison camp and laying bare the perils of totalitarianism (Financial Times). Kolyma Stories is a masterpiece of twentieth - century literature an epic array of short fictional tales reflecting the fifteen years that Varlam Shalamov spent in the Soviet Gulag. This is the first of two volumes (the second to appear in 2019) that together will constitute the first complete English translation of Shalamov's stories and the only one to be based on the authorized Russian text. Shalamov spent six years as a slave in the gold mines of Kolyma before finding a less intolerable life as a paramedic in the prison camps. He began writing his account of life in Kolyma after Stalin's death in 1953. His stories are at once the biography of a rare survivor a historical record of the Gulag and a literary work of unparalleled creative power insight and conviction.
Title: Kolyma Stories
Author(s): Shalamov Varlam
Publisher: The New York Review Of Books Inc
Barcode: 9781681372143
Pages: 776 Pages
Publication Date: 6/12/2018
Category: Short Stories