Kolyma Tales

Author : Varlan Shalamov
Publisher : Penguin UK
ISBN 13 : 0141961953
Total Pages : 488 pages
Book Rating : 4.58/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Kolyma Tales written by Varlan Shalamov and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 1994-07-28 with total page 488 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Author : Nathaniel Golden
Publisher : Rodopi
ISBN 13 : 9789042011984
Total Pages : 212 pages
Book Rating : 4.8X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Varlam Shalamov's Kolyma Tales written by Nathaniel Golden and published by Rodopi. This book was released on 2004 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Author : Лидия Корнеевна Чуковская
Publisher : Northwestern University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780810111509
Total Pages : 132 pages
Book Rating : 4.00/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Sofia Petrovna written by Лидия Корнеевна Чуковская and published by Northwestern University Press. This book was released on 1994 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Author : Nathaniel Golden
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9789004484061
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.6X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Varlam Shalamov's Kolyma Tales written by Nathaniel Golden and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Varlam Shalamov
Publisher : Penguin UK
ISBN 13 : 0718196465
Total Pages : 12 pages
Book Rating : 4.62/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Condensed Milk written by Varlam Shalamov and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2014-03-06 with total page 12 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Author : Jozef Czapski
Publisher : New York Review of Books
ISBN 13 : 1681372584
Total Pages : 137 pages
Book Rating : 4.87/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Lost Time written by Jozef Czapski and published by New York Review of Books. This book was released on 2018-11-06 with total page 137 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first translation of painter and writer Józef Czapski's inspiring lectures on Proust, first delivered in a prison camp in the Soviet Union during World War II. During the Second World War, as a prisoner of war in a Soviet camp, and with nothing but memory to go on, the Polish artist and soldier Józef Czapski brought Marcel Proust’s In Search of Lost Time to life for an audience of prison inmates. In a series of lectures, Czapski described the arc and import of Proust’s masterpiece, sketched major and minor characters in striking detail, and movingly evoked the work’s originality, depth, and beauty. Eric Karpeles has translated this brilliant and ­altogether unparalleled feat of the critical imagination into English for the first time, and in a thoughtful introduction he brings out how, in reckoning with Proust’s great meditation on memory, Czapski helped his fellow officers to remember that there was a world apart from the world of the camp. Proust had staked the art of the novelist against the losses of a lifetime and the imminence of death. Recalling that triumphant wager, unfolding, like Sheherazade, the intricacies of Proust’s world night after night, Czapski showed to men at the end of their tether that the past remained present and there was a future in which to hope.

Author : Varlam Shalamov
Publisher : New York Review of Books
ISBN 13 : 1681372142
Total Pages : 769 pages
Book Rating : 4.43/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Kolyma Stories written by Varlam Shalamov and published by New York Review of Books. This book was released on 2018-06-12 with total page 769 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Author : Варлам Шаламов
Publisher : New York : Norton
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 296 pages
Book Rating : 4.82/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Graphite written by Варлам Шаламов and published by New York : Norton. This book was released on 1981 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nearly 3 million people died in the forced-labor camps of Kolyma, the northeastern region of Siberia. Varlam Shalamov, considered by many to be Russia's greatest living writer, spent seventeen years there and set down the Kolyma experience in powerful short stories. This is the second, more extensive collection which presents a somewhat different view of the camps and the lives of ordinary people caught up in terrible circumstances.

Author : Alexander N. Yakovlev
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780300103229
Total Pages : 278 pages
Book Rating : 4.20/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Century of Violence in Soviet Russia written by Alexander N. Yakovlev and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2002-01-01 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: He unhesitatingly names those individuals who bear responsibility for these catastrophic deaths, bringing into sharper focus than ever before the facts, the perpetrators, and the events of the Soviet Union's years of terror."--BOOK JACKET.

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Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 900446848X
Total Pages : 308 pages
Book Rating : 4.81/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Gulag in Writings of Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn and Varlam Shalamov written by and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2021-08-16 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book offers an account of the two most famous authors of the Gulag: Varlam Shalamov and Alexandr Solzhenitsyn.