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Kolyma Tales
Varlam Shalamov
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Realm
Russian
Author
Varlam Shalamov
Title
Kolyma Tales
Place of Publication
New York
Publisher
Norton
Illustrations
No
Material Type
Book
Language
English
Publisher
Norton
Translator
John Glad
Varlam Shalamov. Kolyma Tales. Translated from the Russian by John Glad. New York: Norton, 1980.
Reviews 2
Kolyma Tales
Varlam Shalamov
Review 1980
Irving Howe. Beyond Bitterness
Varlam Shalamov

The strength of these stories derives, first of all, from a refusal to blink at the finality of waste. Varlam Shalamov, now seventy-three, said to be living in Moscow, spent seventeen years in the forced labor camps of Kolyma, and his life was shattered by this ordeal...

Kolyma Tales
Varlam Shalamov
Review 1980
Gene Sosin. Survivor's Poetic Memoir of Stalin's Worst Camp
Varlam Shalamov

"Kolyma, Kolyma, faraway planet / Twelve months winter, the rest summer." This verse was sung by the forced laborers of Stalin's concentration camps in the northeastern Siberian gold fields where, according to Robert Conquest, 2 to 3 million prisoners perished in temperatures reaching minus 70 degrees C...

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