Shalamov Varlam Bücher

This version has the last three volumes of the Kolyma Stories: IV - Sketches of the Criminal WorldV - The Resurrection of the LarchVI - The Glove, or, Kolyma Stories IIThe 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.’”

It is estimated that some three million people died in the Soviet forced- labour camps of Kolyma, in the northeastern area of Siberia. This book captures the lives of ordinary people caught up in terrible circumstances, whose hopes and plans extended to further than a few hours.

V nastojashhee izdanie vkljucheny Kolymskie rasskazy - glavnyj trud Varlama Shalamova (1907 - 1982) posvjashhennyj zhizni zakljuchennyh ispravitel'no- trudovyh lagerej v 1930 - 1950 gg. Rasskazy napisany v 1954 - 1973 gg. i predstavleny v vide shesti sbornikov: Kolymskie rasskazy Artist lopaty Ocherki prestupnogo mira Voskreshenie listvennicy Perchatka ili KR-2. Pomnite samoe glavnoe: lager' - otricatel'naja shkola s pervogo do poslednego dnja dlja kogo ugodno - pisal Shalamov. - Cheloveku - ni nachal'niku ni arestantu ne nado ego videt'. No uzh esli ty ego videl - nado skazat' pravdu kak by ona ni byla strashna. So svoej storony ja davno reshil chto vsju ostavshujusja zhizn' ja posvjashhu imenno jetoj pravde. Pervye publikacii rasskazov Shalamova sostojalis' v 1966 - 1976 gg. v amerikanskom russkojazychnom Novom zhurnale; na rodine pisatelja proizvedenija uvideli svet lish' posle smerti avtora v konce 1980-h. V knigu takzhe voshli stihotvorenija iz sbornika Kolymskie tetradi (1937 - 1956) kotorye avtor nazyval svoim pojeticheskim dnevnikom