Varlam Shalamov
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Kolyma Stories is a masterpiece of twentieth-century literature, an epic array of short fictional tales reflecting the fifteen year that Varlam Shalamov spent in the Soviet Gulag. This is the first of two volumes (the second the 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...
Author
Publisher
New York Review Books
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
In 1936, Varlam Shalamov, a journalist and writer, was arrested for counterrevolutionary activities and sent to the Soviet Gulag. He survived fifteen years in the prison camps and returned from the Far North to write one of the masterpieces of twentieth-century literature, an epic array of short fictional tales reflecting the years he spent in the Gulag. Sketches of the Criminal World is the second of two volumes (the first, Kolyma Stories, was published...
3) Kolyma Tales
Author
Publisher
W.W. Norton
Pub. Date
[1980]
Language
English
Description
Stories of the author's experiences in Soviet forced-labor camps located in the Kolyma region of northeastern Siberia.
4) Graphite
Author
Publisher
W. W. Norton & Company
Pub. Date
[1981]
Language
English
Description
This second collection of Shalamov's short stories relates his experiences from seventeen years in the Kolyma forced-labor camp in northeastern Siberia.
