Kolyma Tales

Varlam Shalamov (1907–1982) - an outstanding Russian prose writer and a poet who spent seventeen years in the Stalinist camps. “Remember, most importantly, the camp is a negative school from the first to the last day for anyone,” wrote Shalamov. - Man - neither the boss nor the prisoner needs to see him. But if you saw him, I must tell the truth, no matter how terrible it is. For my part, I have long decided that I will devote the rest of my life to this truth. ”
“Kolyma stories”-the main work of V. Shalamov, telling about the life of prisoners of forced labor camps in 1930–1950. The stories were written in 1954-1973. And in this publication they are presented in full-in six cycles: “Kolyma Stories”, “Left Bank”, “Artist of the Lopat”, “Essays on the criminal world”, “The resurrection of larch”, “Glove, or KR-2”. The first publications of Shalamov’s stories took place in 1966-1976. In the American Russian-speaking “New Journal”, in the writer’s homeland, the works saw the light only after the death of the author in the late 1980s