... of the fate of his works was his 1972 letter to Literaturnaia gazeta protesting against the piecemeal publication of his work in foreign journals. Contemporaries tended to read that document as a recantation letter renouncing Kolyma Tales ; as a result, Shalamov's status was transformed into that of a fallen...

... Zhigulin. ‘‘I am the last poet of Stalin’s Kolyma wrote Zhigulin (1989: 160), ‘‘what I do not say will remain unsaid And yet his chapters dealing with his imprisonment in the camp of Butugychag are strangely disconcert- ing and seemingly self-contradictory: why, for instance, does the authorial persona...

..., such as Alexander Solzhenitsyn’s Gulag Archipelago, are often factographic pieces, which expose and protest the hidden network of Soviet prisons and camps. Solzhenitsyn’s First Circle and Varlam Shala- mov’s Kolyma Tales are both analyzed...

..., such as Alexander Solzhenitsyn’s Gulag Archipelago, are often factographic pieces, which expose and protest the hidden network of Soviet prisons and camps. Solzhenitsyn’s First Circle and Varlam Shala- mov’s Kolyma Tales are both analyzed...

..., such as Alexander Solzhenitsyn’s Gulag Archipelago, are often factographic pieces, which expose and protest the hidden network of Soviet prisons and camps. Solzhenitsyn’s First Circle and Varlam Shala- mov’s Kolyma Tales are both analyzed...

... to official literature, the mouthpiece of governmental propaganda. Varlam Shalamov’s stellar reputation arose from The Kolyma Tales—a collection of chilling stories from the Gulag— circulating in his homeland as samizdat and eventually published abroad in translation as well as in Russian...