Kolyma stories
By: Varlam Shalamov ; translated from the Russian and with an introduction by Donald Rayfield
Contributors: Rayfield, Donald, 1942- translator, writer of introduction
Publisher: NYRB Classics
Published: 2018
Language: eng
Number of pages: 741
ISBN-13: 9781681372143
Copyright date: 2018
Subjects: Political prisoners; Kolyma (Concentration camp); Fiction
Work titles: Kolymskie rasskazy
Description: "Kolyma Stories is a masterpiece of twentieth-century literature, an epic array of short fictional tales reflecting the fifteen year that Varlam Shalamov spent in the Soviet Gulag. This is the first of two volumes (the second the appear in 2019) that together will constitute the first complete English translation of Shalamov's stories and the only one to be based on the authorized Russian text. Shalamov spent six years as a slave in the gold mines of Kolyma before finding a less intolerable life as a paramedic in the prison camps. He began writing his account of life in Kolyma after Stalin's death in 1953. His stories are at once the biography a rare survivor, a historical record of the Gulag, and literary work of unparalleled creative power, insight, and conviction"--Page 4 of cover.
Notes: "Originally published in Russian in Sobranie sochineniĭ v 6 + I tomakh (Collected Works, vols. 1-7) by TERRA-Kniznyĭ klub in 2013"--Title page verso.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 735-741).

Translated from the Russian.
Table of contents: title: Book one: Kolyma stories; title: Book two: The left bank; title: Book three: The spade artist.