Kolyma tales / by Varlam Shalamov ; translated from the Russian by John Glad.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Shalamov, Varlam.

Standardized Title:

Kolymskie rasskazy. English

Language:

English

Russian

Genre:

Fiction.

Physical Description:

xix, 508 pages ; 18 cm

Place of Publication:

Harmondsworth : Penguin, 1994.

Summary:

It is estimated that some three million people died in the Soviet forced-labour camps of Kolyma, in the north-eastern area of Siberia. Shalamov himself spent seventeen years there, and in these stories he vividly captures the lives of ordinary people caught up in terrible circumstances, their hopes and plans extending no further than a few hours.

Contents:

Kolyma tales. Through the snow ; On tick ; In the night ; Carpenters ; An individual assignment ; A 'pushover' job ; Dry rations ; The injector ; The Apostle Paul ; Berries ; Tamara the bitch ; Cherry brandy ; A child's drawings ; Condensed milk ; The snake charmer ; The golden Taiga ; Vaska Denisov, kidnapper of pigs ; A day off ; Dominoes ; Shock therapy ; The lawyers' plot ; Typhoid quarantine

The Left Bank. The Procurator of Judea ; The lepers ; Descendant of a Decembrist ; Committees for the poor ; Magic ; A piece of meat ; Esperanto ; Major Pugachov's last battle ; The used-book dealer ; Lend-lease ; Sententious

The virtuoso shovelman. The seizure ; An epitaph ; Handwriting ; The businessman ; Captain Tolly's love ; In the bathhouse ; The green Procurator ; My first tooth ; Prosthetic appliances ; The train

Essays on the criminal world. The Red Cross ; Women in the criminal world

Resurrection of the larch. Quiet ; Grishka Logun's thermometer ; Chief of political control ; The life of Engineer Kipreev ; Mister Popp's visit ; The theft ; The letter ; Fire and water ; Graphite.

Notes:

Originally published: New York ; London : Norton, 1980.

ISBN:

0140186956

9780140186956

OCLC:

31921264