Thun-Hohenstein F. Pisat' zhizn': Varlam Shalamov. Biografija i pojetika

Author	Thun-Hohenstein F.
Title	Pisat' zhizn': Varlam Shalamov. Biografija i pojetika
Description	In the camp, Varlam Shalamov was reduced to the level of human material, disposed of by others and whose destruction was taken into account in advance. The survivor, both in life and in his work, resisted any attempt by others to encroach upon his “I”. To have free command over his own life and to retain fully the highest right to interpret his fate in words was, for him, as precious as the authenticity of feeling from which every written word was born. His poetry and prose were based on what he himself had seen and come to know. Speaking of his work, he once said: “I am the chronicler of my own soul. Nothing more.” In all his texts, he bound his own life most closely to modern Russian history. His strategy of remembrance requires historical knowledge. It is intended for a reader who is prepared, again and again, to call their own thoughts and actions into question. Franziska Thun-Hohenstein is a literary scholar and Senior Fellow at the Centre for Literary and Cultural Research in Berlin. Varlam Shalamov was a Soviet prose writer and poet, best known as the author of the cycle of stories and essays Kolyma Tales, which describes the lives of prisoners in Soviet corrective labour camps in the 1930s–1950s.
Year	2025
Publisher	Izdatel'stvo Ivana Limbaha
Pages	536
Cover	Hardcover
ISBN	978-5-89059-565-2

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