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Kolyma Tales
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Author : Varlan Shalamov
language : en
Publisher: Penguin UK
Release Date : 1994-07-28
Kolyma Tales written by Varlan Shalamov and has been published by Penguin UK this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1994-07-28 with Fiction categories.
It is estimated that some three million people died in the Soviet forced-labour camps of Kolyma, in the northeastern area of Siberia. Shalamov himself spent seventeen years there, and in these stories he vividly captures the lives of ordinary people caught up in terrible circumstances, whose hopes and plans extended to further than a few hours This new enlarged edition combines two collections previously published in the United States as Kolyma Tales and Graphite.
Kolyma Stories
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Author : Varlam Shalamov
language : en
Publisher: New York Review of Books
Release Date : 2018-06-12
Kolyma Stories written by Varlam Shalamov and has been published by New York Review of Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-06-12 with Fiction categories.
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.
Kolyma Tales
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Author : Varlam Shalamov
language : en
Publisher: National Geographic Books
Release Date : 1995-02-01
Kolyma Tales written by Varlam Shalamov and has been published by National Geographic Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1995-02-01 with Fiction categories.
It is estimated that some three million people died in the Soviet forced-labour camps of Kolyma, in the northeastern area of Siberia. Shalamov himself spent seventeen years there, and in these stories he vividly captures the lives of ordinary people caught up in terrible circumstances, whose hopes and plans extended to further than a few hours. This new enlarged edition combines two collections previously published in the United States as Kolyma Tales and Graphite. For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.
Varlam Shalamov S Kolyma Tales
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Author : Nathaniel Golden
language : en
Publisher: Rodopi
Release Date : 2004
Varlam Shalamov S Kolyma Tales written by Nathaniel Golden and has been published by Rodopi this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2004 with Literary Criticism categories.
This book analyses eleven of Varlam Shalamov's Kolyma Tales from a neo-Formalist perspective. The tales are a testament to Shalamov's seventeen years in Stalin's Gulags, and were written in an attempt to draw attention to this period in Soviet history. Nathaniel Golden has primarily utilised L. M. O'Toole's work Structure, Style and Interpretation in the Russian Short Story as the major basis for analysis, but has incorporated many other Formalist and indeed Structuralist methods. The tales in each chapter are analysed by means of five major Formalist categories: Narrative Structure, Point of View, Fabula and Sujet, Characterisation and Setting. This process highlights many of Shalamov's ideas and motifs in the tales. He frequently uses techniques of estrangement and paradox to augment camp experience, reflecting his belief that there is no moral, emotional or spiritual gain in suffering. He habitually employs a 'focaliser' to tell the tale from a near-death perspective and in consequence distances the author from events. His literary background is prominent within the tales, where he occasionally alludes to earlier Russian authors and their works to indicate the recurring nature of Man's fallibility against the Gulag background. His characters are often simply portrayed yet representative of flawed heroes and the baseness of human beings subjected to an existence in extremis. His settings are minimal, yet form a major part of his message: Man is compared to nature, but nature is powerful and able to regenerate itself, whereas Man's existence is temporary and futile. This book therefore, shows that the Formalist approach is indeed still valid as a literary tool of analysis as well as showing that upon the 50th year of Stalin's death, Varlam Shalamov's time has arrived.
Varlam Shalamov S Kolyma Tales
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language : en
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Release Date : 2004
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Kolyma Stories
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Author : Varlam Tichonovič Šalamov
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2018
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Shock Therapy
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Author : Varlam Shalamov
language : en
Publisher: Penguin UK
Release Date : 2014-03-06
Shock Therapy written by Varlam Shalamov and has been published by Penguin UK this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-03-06 with Fiction categories.
Merzlakov, once a robust stable-hand, now fights hunger, pain and exhaustion after a year and a half at a labour camp. An enormous man given little food, he sees the larger men dying first, their bodies conquered by starvation. In his desperation for survival, he begins a yearlong struggle of pain and injury. It ends with the inscrutable and punctilious Dr Peter Ivanovich. In a curious mix of empathy and haunting objectivity, this short story describes a snapshot of life in a Russian labour-camp. Written after Varlam Shalamov's own experiences at a gulag, it is one episode in the many that make up Kolyma Tales.
Sofia Petrovna
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Author : Лидия Корнеевна Чуковская
language : en
Publisher: Northwestern University Press
Release Date : 1994
Sofia Petrovna written by Лидия Корнеевна Чуковская and has been published by Northwestern University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1994 with Fiction categories.
Sofia Petrovna is Lydia Chukovskaya's fictional account of the Great Purge. Sofia is a Soviet Everywoman, a doctor's widow who works as a typist in a Leningrad publishing house. When her beloved son is caught up in the maelstrom of the purge, she joins the long lines of women outside the prosecutor's office, hoping against hope for good news. Confronted with a world that makes no moral sense, Sofia goes mad, a madness which manifests itself in delusions little different from the lies those around her tell every day to protect themselves. Sofia Petrovna offers a rare and vital record of Stalin's Great Purges.
Sketches Of The Criminal World
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Author : Varlam Shalamov
language : en
Publisher: New York Review of Books
Release Date : 2020-01-14
Sketches Of The Criminal World written by Varlam Shalamov and has been published by New York Review of Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-01-14 with Fiction categories.
The astonishing follow-up to 2018's Kolyma Stories. 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 by NYRB Classics in 2018) that together constitute the first complete English translation of Shalamov’s stories and the only one to be based on the authorized Russian text. In this second volume, Shalamov sets out to answer the fundamental moral questions that plagued him in the camps where he encountered firsthand the criminal world as a real place, far more evil than Dostoyevsky’s underground: “How does someone stop being human?” and “How are criminals made?” By 1972, when he was writing his last stories, the camps were being demolished, the guard towers and barracks razed. “Did we exist?” Shalamov asks, then answers without hesitation, “I reply, ‘We did.’”
Condensed Milk
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Author : Varlam Shalamov
language : en
Publisher: Penguin UK
Release Date : 2014-03-06
Condensed Milk written by Varlam Shalamov and has been published by Penguin UK this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-03-06 with Fiction categories.
Narrated in the first person, this short story is one episode in the life of a Russian labour-camp inmate. Written by Varlam Shalamov after his own experiences at a gulag, it describes the apathy of prisoners as they steadily approach death, the assuredness of betrayal and duplicity, and the constant craving for material satisfaction to lessen the empty, scorched feeling inside. When an old acquaintance lays out an escape plan, that satisfaction is offered in the form of condensed milk: a sweet, delicious extravagance - a small element of joy in the midst of impending death.