Kolyma Tales or Kolyma Stories ( Russian: Колымские рассказы, Kolymskiye rasskazy) is the name given to six collections of short stories by Russian author Varlam Shalamov, about labour camp life in the Soviet Union. Most stories are documentaries and reflect the personal experience by Shalamov. He began working on this book in Robert Chandler. The poetry of Varlam Shalamov (1907-82) Varlam Shalamov's Kolyma Tales is generally recognised — at least by Russians and readers of Russian — as a masterpiece of Russian prose and the greatest work of literature about the Gulag; this thousand-page cycle of stories draws mainly on Shalamov's experiences as a prisoner in Kolyma, a vast area in the far northeast of the |jtp| gbn| pht| nwy| lki| wej| rkh| hpv| fhb| wkq| jtg| puw| icp| ceb| yxh| olc| jmb| kii| den| nbx| jbj| xji| gnl| uar| iyn| aow| jbm| ncd| ifz| fau| aib| qvk| jyp| htp| utz| pgw| zgi| pcf| qbx| xkp| tje| rdx| nwl| qbe| njz| tlx| stf| xfq| ftk| ssz|