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Title: Kolyma Tales (Combined Two-Volume Edition) by Varlam Shalamov, John Glad ISBN: 0-14-018695-6 Publisher: Penguin Books Pub. Date: 01 February, 1995 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $15.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.31 (13 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: MAGNIFICENT
Comment: Another reviewer has written that the English translation of these stories pales besides the Russian original. If that is so, I wish I could read Russian, because the stories in the English translation are among the best I have ever read. This book, tales of life in the Soviet GULAG, stands shoulder to shoulder with Tadeusz Borowski's THIS WAY FOR THE GAS, LADIES AND GENTLEMEN, which is composed of tales of life in Auschwitz, as the finest examples I have read of stories of man's inhumanity to man told in such an understated fashion that, once read, they are unforgettable. Shalamov was a genius.
Rating: 5
Summary: Kolyma Tales: Powerful tales of the GULag
Comment: Kolyma Tales is one of the most important sets of Russian short stories of this century. Varlam Shalamov, the author, provides a searing look at life in Stalin's forced labor system. The stories are well-translated by John Glad, who brings a greater audience to this extremely important 20th century Russian writer. This book outstrips Solzhenitsyn's "One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich" in its ability to show the reader the true horror of the GULag. Shalamov creates a narrator who, although outwardly neutral, reveals the full pathos of a system that killed millions of people, not deliberately, but through its complete indifference to their fate. These stories will linger and stay with a reader for years to come. We can only hope that with the destruction of the Soviet Union, more great writers like Shalamov whose work was silenced will be brought out into the open
Rating: 5
Summary: Devastating
Comment: Kolyma Tales should be required reading in all universities and even high schools, as it demonstrates the horror created by people and even the resilience of the human spirit. Mr. Shalamov truly created an empathic response.
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Title: Man Is Wolf to Man: Surviving the Gulag by Janusz Bardach, Kathleen Gleeson ISBN: 0520221524 Publisher: University of California Press Pub. Date: 01 October, 1999 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
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Title: Gulag: A History by Anne Applebaum ISBN: 0767900561 Publisher: Doubleday Books Pub. Date: 15 April, 2003 List Price(USD): $35.00 |
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Title: Journey into the Whirlwind (Helen and Kurt Wolff Books) by Eugenia Ginzburg ISBN: 0156027518 Publisher: Harvest Books Pub. Date: 01 November, 2002 List Price(USD): $16.00 |
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Title: Within the Whirlwind by Eugenia Ginzburg ISBN: 0156976498 Publisher: Harvest Books Pub. Date: 01 October, 1982 List Price(USD): $23.00 |
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Title: The Gulag Archipelago: 1918-1956 by Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn ISBN: 0060007761 Publisher: Perennial Pub. Date: 22 January, 2002 List Price(USD): $18.95 |
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