...Leona Toker The article offers an explanation of Varlam Shalamov's negative attitude to the samizdat in the 1970s, particularly puzzling in view of the samizdat's role in making him unofficially famous in the 1960s. It explains the change in Shalamov's views by his struggle for authorial control...

... of Varlam Shalamov. © 2005 by the Porter Institute for Poetics and Semiotics 2005 Amis, Martin 2002 Koba the Dread: Laughter and the Twenty Million (New York: Hyperion). Bardach, Janusz, and Kathleen Gleeson 1998 Man Is Wolf to Man: Surviving the Gulag (Berkeley:University of California...

... with a comparison of Franz Kafka’s “The Hun- ger Artist” and one of Varlam Shalamov’s documentary Gulag stories, “The Artist of the Spade” (whose English translation is attached to the chapter). Toker regards Shalamov’s story as separated from the modern- ist texts she dealt with previously...

.... New Books at a Glance 249 The book concludes with a comparison of Franz Kafka’s “The Hun- ger Artist” and one of Varlam Shalamov’s documentary Gulag stories, “The Artist of the Spade” (whose English translation is attached to the chapter). Toker regards Shalamov’s story as separated...

.... New Books at a Glance 249 The book concludes with a comparison of Franz Kafka’s “The Hun- ger Artist” and one of Varlam Shalamov’s documentary Gulag stories, “The Artist of the Spade” (whose English translation is attached to the chapter). Toker regards Shalamov’s story as separated...

... 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...

... “to the frame narrator as narratee” and through him to the reader (212). Part 3, “Shadow of a Tail: Problems of Authorship,” includes five articles, of which only the first two — Leona Toker’s “Name Change and Author Avatars in Varlam Shalamov and Primo Levi” and Marina Grishakova’s “Stranger than Fiction...

... : Indiana University Press . Toker Leona . 2005 . “ Target Audience, Hurdle Audience, and the General Reader: Varlam Shalamov's Art of Testimony .” Poetics Today 26 , no. 2 : 281 – 303 . Van Buskirk Emily . 2010 . “ Recovering the Past for the Future: Guilt, Memory, and Lidiia...

... the point of view of under- mining the foundation of the state, samizdat was much more dangerous. A large portion of samizdat was sharply-political (which for the KGB was a synonym for anti-Soviet). It’s enough just to look at the most popular works of samiz- dat: Varlam Shalamov’s “Kolymskie...