Kolyma stories. Shalamov V.T.

Varlam Shalamov (1907–1982) - an outstanding Russian prose writer and a poet who spent seventeen years in the Stalinist camps. “Remember, most importantly, the camp is a negative school from the first to the last day for anyone,” wrote Shalamov. - Man - neither the boss nor the prisoner needs to see him. But if you saw him, I must tell the truth, no matter how terrible it is. For my part, I have long decided that I will devote the rest of my life to this truth. ”

“Kolyma stories”-the main work of V. Shalamov, telling about the life of prisoners of the forced labor camps in the 1930-1950s. The stories were written in 1954-1973, but in the homeland of the writer the works saw the light only after the death of the author, in the late 1980s. This edition publishes a cycle of “Kolyma stories”, as well as stories from the collections “Left Coast”, “Artist of the shovel”, “Essays on the criminal world”, “The resurrection of larch” and “glove, or KR-2.”