‏119.00 ₪

Sketches of the Criminal World: Further Kolyma Stories

‏119.00 ₪
ISBN13
9781681373676
יצא לאור ב
New York
עמודים
576
פורמט
Paperback / softback
תאריך יציאה לאור
14 בינו׳ 2020
Shalamov spent six years as a slave in the gold mines of Kolyma before finding a less intolerable life as a paramedic in the prison camps. He began writing his account of life in Kolyma after Stalin's death in 1953 and continued for the next twenty years. In this second volume, Shalamov sets out to answer the fundamental moral questions that plagued him in the camps where he encountered first-hand 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 remnants of the camps were being destroyed, the guard towers and barracks razed, the barbed wire rolled up and taken away. "Did we exist?" Shalamov asks, then answers without hesitation, "I reply, 'We did,' with all the expressiveness of an official statement, with the responsibility, the precision of a document.
מידע נוסף
עמודים 576
פורמט Paperback / softback
ISBN10 168137367X
יצא לאור ב New York
תאריך יציאה לאור 14 בינו׳ 2020