Kolyma tales
Memory and Fiction
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https://doi.org/10.11606/issn.2317-4765.rus.2020.175155Keywords:
Shalamov, narrative, fiction, memoryAbstract
The prose of Varlam Tikhonovitch Shalamov (1907-1982), survivor of the Soviet forced labor camps during Stalin’s regime, is a monument to the fundamental role of storytelling in human struggle against death and oblivion. Having established some general considerations on Shalamov’s experience in gulag, as it was portrayed in his work, I propose to reflect, from the analysis of two of his short stories, both included in the first volume of the Tales of Kolyma series, about the author’s relation with literature and writing.
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