Kolyma Tales

Varlam Shalamov (1907–1982) was an outstanding Russian prose writer and poet who spent seventeen years in Stalin's labor camps. "Remember, the most important thing, the camp is a negative school from the first to the last day for anyone," Shalamov wrote. "A person - neither to the boss, nor to the prisoner - should see it. But if you have seen it - you must tell the truth, no matter how terrible it may be. ?…? On my part, I have long decided that I will dedicate the rest of my life precisely to this truth." "Kolyma Tales" is the main work of V. Shalamov, narrating the life of prisoners in corrective labor camps in the 1930s-1950s. The stories were written between 1954 and 1973, but in the writer's homeland, the works were only published after the author's death, in the late 1980s. This edition includes a cycle of "Kolyma Tales," as well as stories from the collections "Left Bank," "The Artist of the Shovel," "Essays on the Criminal World," "The Resurrection of the Larch," and "The Glove, or KR-2."