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Sketches of the Criminal World

- Further Kolyma Stories
Af: Donald Rayfield, Varlam Shalamov Engelsk Paperback

Sketches of the Criminal World

- Further Kolyma Stories
Af: Donald Rayfield, Varlam Shalamov Engelsk Paperback
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The 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.’”
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The 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.’”
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Sprog: Engelsk
Sider: 576
ISBN-13: 9781681373676
Indbinding: Paperback
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ISBN-10: 168137367X
Kategori: Moderne Samtidslitteratur
Udg. Dato: 14 jan 2020
Længde: 31mm
Bredde: 127mm
Højde: 203mm
Forlag: The New York Review of Books, Inc
Oplagsdato: 14 jan 2020
Forfatter(e): Donald Rayfield, Varlam Shalamov
Forfatter(e) Donald Rayfield, Varlam Shalamov

Kategori Moderne Samtidslitteratur

ISBN-13 9781681373676

Sprog Engelsk

Indbinding Paperback

Sider 576

Udgave

Længde 31mm

Bredde 127mm

Højde 203mm

Udg. Dato 14 jan 2020

Oplagsdato 14 jan 2020

Forlag The New York Review of Books, Inc

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