Kolyma Tales
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Varlam Tikhonovich Shalamov (1907–1982) - the Russian Soviet prose writer and the poet was born in Vologda in the family of a priest.
received a good home education, graduated from a gymnasium, a labor school. But he did not want to follow in the footsteps of his father, moved to Moscow, where he worked as a tunity at the Kuntsevsky leather factory, and was later admitted to Moscow University at the Faculty of Soviet Law. In the capital, he visited literary circles, went to poetry evenings.
Twice Shalamov was arrested and exiled first (1929–1931) to the Vishersky camp in the Perm region, where he built the Bereznikovsky Chemical Plant, and then to Kolyma (1937–1951) to the North-East Camp, where he worked as a gold miner, lumberjack, lumberjack. The digger, mining coal.
Later, having graduated from paramedic courses, Shalamov worked as a paramedic in the Far East.
Inhuman-mild labor and the conditions of camp life, which fell to the share of the whole generation, formed the basis of the series of stories and essays of Shalamov Kolyma Stories ”, which tells about the life of the prisoners of Soviet forced labor camps in the 1930-1950s.
“ Kolyma Stories ”, on which V. Shalamov began to work immediately upon his return from the Stalinist camps and worked for almost twenty years, with 1954 to 1973-an amazing artistic and documentary evidence of one of the worst tragedies of the twentieth century
received a good home education, graduated from a gymnasium, a labor school. But he did not want to follow in the footsteps of his father, moved to Moscow, where he worked as a tunity at the Kuntsevsky leather factory, and was later admitted to Moscow University at the Faculty of Soviet Law. In the capital, he visited literary circles, went to poetry evenings.
Twice Shalamov was arrested and exiled first (1929–1931) to the Vishersky camp in the Perm region, where he built the Bereznikovsky Chemical Plant, and then to Kolyma (1937–1951) to the North-East Camp, where he worked as a gold miner, lumberjack, lumberjack. The digger, mining coal.
Later, having graduated from paramedic courses, Shalamov worked as a paramedic in the Far East.
Inhuman-mild labor and the conditions of camp life, which fell to the share of the whole generation, formed the basis of the series of stories and essays of Shalamov Kolyma Stories ”, which tells about the life of the prisoners of Soviet forced labor camps in the 1930-1950s.
“ Kolyma Stories ”, on which V. Shalamov began to work immediately upon his return from the Stalinist camps and worked for almost twenty years, with 1954 to 1973-an amazing artistic and documentary evidence of one of the worst tragedies of the twentieth century
Author:
Author:Shalamov V.T.
Cover:
Cover:Hard
Category:
- Category:History & Geography
- Category:Fiction
Paper:
Paper:Offset
Age restrictions:
Age restrictions:12+
ISBN:
ISBN:978-5-17-148811-6
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