Kolyma stories
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Author
Contributions
- Rayfield, Donald, 1942- translator, writer of introduction - Contributor
Publication
2018 - NYRB Classics, New York (State)
Language
English
Word Count
185,250 words, Guess
Page Count
741 pages
Identifiers
- ISBN-139781681372143
- ISBN-101681372142
- Library of Congress Control Number2017046693
- OCLC Control Number994410583
- Better World Books9781681372143
and 1 more
- Open LibraryOL26967027M
Classifications
- DDC891.73/44
- LCCPG3487.A592 K6413 2018
- LCCPG3487.A592K6413
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 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 a rare survivor, a historical record of the Gulag, and literary work of unparalleled creative power, insight, and conviction"--Page 4 of cover.
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