Kolyma stories
Shalamov, Varlam2018
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Shalamov spent 6 years as a slave in the gold mines of Kolyma, a far northeast region of the USSR and one of the coldest and most inhospitable places on Earth, 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 and continued until his own physical and mental decline in the late 1970s. In 'Kolyma Stories', the line between autobiography and fiction is indistinct: everything in these stories was experienced or witnessed by Shalamov. His work records the real names of prisoners and their oppressors; he himself appears simply as 'I' or 'Shalamov', or at times under a pseudonym. These collected stories form the biography of a rare survivor, a historical record of the Gulag, and, because the stories have more than documentary value, a literary work of creative power and conviction.
Main title:
Kolyma stories / Varlam Shalamov ; translated and with an introduction by Donald Rayfield.
Author:
Shalamov, Varlam, authorRayfield, Donald, 1942-, translator
Imprint:
New York : New York Review Books, 2018.
Collation:
741 pages 21 cm.
Notes:
Translated from the Russian.
ISBN:
9781681372143 (pbk)
Dewey class:
891.7344
LC class:
PG3487.A592
Language:
EnglishRussian
Subject:
BRN:
2219661