Varlam Shalamov  /  Authored Sources 8

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Letter to the Editor of 'Literaturnaia Gazeta'
Letter to the Editor 1972
Letter to the Editor of 'Literaturnaia Gazeta'
Varlam Shalamov
It has come to my attention that the Russian-language anti-Soviet literary journal Posev, based in West Germany, as well as the émigré journal Novyi Zhurnal in New York, have decided to use my good name as a Soviet writer and citizen and are printing my Kolyma Tales in their slanderous publications...
Yuri Terapiano. Review of Grani, №76
Varlam Shalamov
Review 1970
Yuri Terapiano. Review of Grani, №76
Varlam Shalamov
Purge Literature. Article 58
Varlam Shalamov
Review 1967
Purge Literature. Article 58
Varlam Shalamov
In 1962, Evgeny Evtushenko called to his country, “Double, triple the amount of guards at this tombstone!”The soviet writer’s warning concerned with a revival of the Stalinist past is addressed in his “Stalin’s Inheritance” (the title of Evtushenko’s poem)...
Clarence Brown. Memoirs From the House of the Dead
Varlam Shalamov
Review 1981
Clarence Brown. Memoirs From the House of the Dead
Varlam Shalamov
ON ONE CHRISTMAS NIGHT in the 1930s or '40s or early '50s (the dates are not important) some prisoners are sitting around a stove in a Soviet concentration camp in Siberia. The extra degree of warmth laid on for the holiday has made them almost giddy...
Jay Martin. Seventeen Years in Kolyma
Varlam Shalamov
Review 1981
Jay Martin. Seventeen Years in Kolyma
Varlam Shalamov
IN 1937 Varlam Shalamov, a rising young Soviet author, was sent to prison to pay for his ideological sins. He spent 17 years in the Kolyma region of northeastern Siberia, where the Soviet Government operated a vast gold-mining operation. He survived...