By Varlam Shalamov,Donald Rayfield
ISBN-10: 1681372142
ISBN-13: 9781681372143
A masterpiece of Gulag literature, the entire Kolyma Stories is a thousand-page epic composed of brief fictional stories according to Russian author Varlam Shalamov's fifteen years within the Gulag. He spent six years as a slave within the gold mines of Kolyma, a much northeast area of the USSR and one of many coldest and so much inhospitable locations on the earth, sooner than discovering a much less insupportable existence as a paramedic within the felony camps. He begun writing his six-volume prose account of lifestyles in Kolyma after Stalin's loss of life in 1953 and persisted till his personal actual and psychological decline within the overdue Seventies. Kolyma Stories includes the 1st 3 volumes of Shalamov's stories. the road among autobiography and fiction is vague: every little thing in those tales used to be skilled or witnessed by way of Shalamov. His paintings documents the genuine names of prisoners and their oppressors; he himself seems easily as "I" or "Shalamov," or now and then, below a pseudonym, equivalent to Andreyev or Krist. those gathered tales shape the biography of a unprecedented survivor, a historic checklist of the Gulag, and, as the tales have greater than documentary worth, a literary paintings of artistic energy and conviction.
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