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portada Sketches of the Criminal World: Further Kolyma Stories
Type
Physical Book
Author
Translated by
Introduction by
Publisher
Year
2020
Language
English
Pages
576
Format
Paperback
Dimensions
20.3 x 12.7 x 3.0 cm
Weight
0.59 kg.
ISBN13
9781681373676
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Sketches of the Criminal World: Further Kolyma Stories

Varlam Shalamov (Author) · Donald Rayfield (Translated by) · Alissa Valles (Introduction by) · New York Review of Books · Paperback

Sketches of the Criminal World: Further Kolyma Stories - Shalamov, Varlam ; Rayfield, Donald ; Valles, Alissa

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Synopsis "Sketches of the Criminal World: Further Kolyma Stories"

The astonishing follow-up to 2018's Kolyma Stories. In 1936, Varlam Shalamov, a journalist and writer, was arrested for counterrevolutionary activities and sent to the Soviet Gulag. He survived fifteen years in the prison camps and returned from the Far North to write one of the masterpieces of twentieth-century literature, an epic array of short fictional tales reflecting the years he spent in the Gulag. Sketches of the Criminal World is the second of two volumes (the first, Kolyma Stories, was published by NYRB Classics in 2018) that together constitute the first complete English translation of Shalamov's stories and the only one to be based on the authorized Russian text. In this second volume, Shalamov sets out to answer the fundamental moral questions that plagued him in the camps where he encountered firsthand the criminal world as a real place, far more evil than Dostoyevsky's underground: "How does someone stop being human?" and "How are criminals made?" By 1972, when he was writing his last stories, the camps were being demolished, the guard towers and barracks razed. "Did we exist?" Shalamov asks, then answers without hesitation, "I reply, 'We did.'"

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