“My writing is no more about camps that St-Exupéry's is about the sky or Melville's, about the sea. My stories are basically advice to an individual on how to act in a crowd... [To be] not just further to the left than the left, but also more real than reality itself. For blood to be true and nameless.”.
Varlam Shalamov
Read about the goals of our project here.The first meeting with Shalamov:
- Varlam Shalamov “What I’ve seen and learned at Kolyma camps”
- Varlam Shalamov “The best praise”
- Irina Sirotinskaya “The Years We Talked”
- Valery Esipov “Varlam Shalamov and Alexander Solzhenitsyn”
Shalamov.ru on the web (15 december 2009)
The English pages of the site dedicated to the great Soviet writer and a unique individual, Varlam Shalamov, are launched.Unfortunately, Shalamov’s writing has received less attention than it deserves, both from the general public and from the researchers. Shalamov didn't fit any ideological pigeonholing. Although a victim of Stalin’s repressions, he was by no means an accidental one. At the end of the 20s he was an active member of the Left Opposition and was sent to the Gulag for being a conscious anti-Stalinist, which he remained until the end of his life. For further information see the “About us” section.
News archive: 2009
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