Varlam Shalamov

Bibliography

Link to Russian Bibliography

  • Shalamov's Translations

  • "A Good Hand," and "Caligula." in Russia's Other Writers. ed. Michael Scammel. London: Longman, 1970.
  • Graphite. trans. John Glad. New York: W. S. Norton Company, 1981.
  • The Kolyma Tales trans. John Glad. New York: W. S. Norton Company, 1980.
  • The Kolyma Tales / Graphite. trans. John Glad. Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1991.
  • The Kolyma Tales. trans. John Glad. New York: Penguin Books, 1994.
  • "Through the Snow, and other Stories" trans. Mary Jane Shite. Nimrod 32(2) (1990): 114-119.

  • On Varlam Salamov's life and work

  • Books and Dissertations

  • Brewer, Michael. Varlam shalamov's Kolymskie rasskazy: The Problem of Ordering. Master's Thesis, University of Arizona, 1995.
  • Golden, Nathaniel. Varlam Shalamov's Kolyma Tales a Formalist Analysis. Editions Rodopi B.V., Amsterdam – New York, NY 2004.
    Reviews of this book:
    Young S.J. In Slavonica, 11, 1 (2005), pp. 98-99.
    Doherty, Justin. In The Modern Language Review, October 1, 2006.
    Carol J. Any. In Slavic Review 64, no. 1 (Spring 2005): 236-37.
  • Kline, Laura. PhD. Dissertation, Novaja Proza: Varlam Shalamov's Kolymskie Rasskazy, University of Michigan, 1998.
  • Toker, Leona. Return from the Archipelago: Narratives of Gulag Survivors. Bloomington, in: Indiana University Press, 2000. (the chapter about Varlam Shalamov)

  • Articles

  • Brewer, Michael. 'The Dialogic' in Varlam Shalamov's Kolymskie rasskazy - 'Authorial,' Lyric and Narrative Voices in Varlam shalamov's Kolymskie rasskazy: A Close Reading of 'Sententsiia'. AATSEEL Conference. Chicago, 28. December 1995.
  • Davoliute, Violeta. Shalamov's Memory. Canadian Slavonic Papers, March 1, 2005.
  • Glad, John. Foreword to Varlam Shalamov's Kolyma Tales, Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1994, p. ix-xix.
  • Glad, John. Art out of Hell: Shalamov of Kolyma. Survey Vol.24, No.2 (107) (1979). p. 45-50.
  • Glad, John. Varlam Shalamov, In Handbook of Russian Literature, Yale University Press, 1985.
  • Hoskings, Geoffrey. The Twentieth Century: 1953-80. The Cambridge History of Russian Literature. ed. Charles A. Moser. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1989.
  • Hosking, Geoffrey A. The Ultimate Circle of the Stalinist Inferno. New University Quarterly 2 (1980).
  • Kline, Laura. Narrative Perspective in Varlam Shalamov's Kolymskie rasskazy. Unpublished manuscript.
  • Mikhailik Elena. Potentialities of Intertextuality in the Short Story On Tick Varlam Shalamov: Problems of Cultural Context // Essays in Poetics, 25, 2000, p. 169-86.
  • Mikhailik, Elena. Dostoevsky and Shalamov: Orpheus and Pluto. In: The Dostoevsky Journal 1, 1 (2000). p. 147-157.
  • Mikhailik, Elena. Varlam Shalamov: problems of the cultural context, Australian Slavonic and East European Studies, Vol. 9, No. 1. p. 31-64.
  • Mikhailik, Elena. In the Devil's Presence: Varlam Shalamov: Problems of Cultural Context. Russian Literature, Volume 47, Issue 2, 15 February 2000, Pages 199-219.
  • Oja, Matt F. "Shalamov, Soizhenitsyn, and the Mission of Memory." Survey 29, no. 2 (125) (Summer 1985): 62-69.
  • Prince, Gerald. Dictionary of Narratology. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1987.
  • Scher, Barry P. "Varlam Shalamov" in Cyclopedia of World Author's. ed. Frank N. Magill. vol. 4. Pasadena: Shalem Press, 1989. 1345-1246.
  • Sherman, Ken. Varlam Shalamov: Poet of the Frozen Inferno // Queen's Quarterly volume 111, 2004. pp. 549-561.
  • Szulkin, Robert. The Terror of Transformation in Varlam Shalamov's Stories. Human Rights Quarterly, Vol. 5, No. 2 (May, 1983), pp. 207-213.
  • Todorov T. Facing the Extrime: Moral Life in the Concentration camps, Londov, Weidenfeld, 1999.
  • Toker, Leona. Stories from Kolyma: The Sense of History, Hebrew University Studies in Literature and the Arts 17, 1989, pp. 188-220.
  • Toker, Leona. A Tale Untold: Varlam Shalamov's A Day Off. Studies in Short Fiction 28, no. 1 (Winter 1991). pp. 1-8.
  • Toker, Leona. Varlam Shalamov's Kolyma. In Between Heaven and Hell: The Myth of Siberia in Russian Culture, ed. Galya Diment and Yuri Slezkine. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1993. p. 151-169
  • Toker, Leona. Versions of Job: Some Jewish Characters in the Stories of Varlam Shalamov. In Jews and Slavs, ed. W. Moskovich, S. Shwarzband, and A. Alekseev, Jerusalem: FPL, 1995. p 253-66.
  • Toker, Leona. Toward a Poetics of Documentary Prose — From the Perspective of Gulag Testimonies. Poetics Today 18, no. 2 (Summer 1997). p. 187-221.
  • Toker, Leona. Contra Schopenhauer: Varlam Shalamov and Principium Individationis. Real: Yearbook of Reserch in Eanglish and American Literature 13 (Literature and Philosiphy, ed Herbert Grabes), 1997.
  • Toker, Leona. Testimony as Art: Varlam Shalamov's Condensed Milk. In Critical Ethics: Text, Theory and Responsibility, ed. Dominic Rainsford and Tim Woods, New York: St. Martin's Press, 1999. 241-256.
  • Toker, Leona. "Kafka's 'The Hunger Artist' and Shalamov's 'The Artist of the Spade'." In Cold Fusion: Aspects of the German Cultural Presence in Russia, ed. Gennady Barabtarlo, 277-91. New York: Berghahn Books, 2000.
  • Toker, Leona. Target Audience, Hurdle Audience, and the General Reader: Varlam Shalamov's Art of Testimony. Poetics Today 26, no. 2 (Summer 2005): 282-303.
  • Toker, Leona. Testimony and Doubt: Shalamov’s “How It Began” and “Handwriting” // Imagined Realities: Fictionality and Non-fictionality in Literary Constructs and Historical Contexts. Ed. Markku Lehtimäki, Simo Leisti and Marja Rytkönen. Tampere: Tampere University Press, 2007.
  • Toker, Leona. Samizdat and the Problem of Authorial Control: The Case of Varlam Shalamov Duke University Press, Poetics Today, 2008, 29(4), pp. 735-758;
  • Toker, Leona Kafka's 'The Huger Artist' and Shalamov's The Artist of the Spade: Notes on intertextuality in Documentary Prose. Unpublished manuscript. Personal collection of Leona Toker, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem.
  • Tucker, Janet. "Varlam (Tikhonovich) Shalamov Biography." In: Dictionary of Literary Biography, 2006. http://www.bookrags.com/biography/varlam-tikhonovich-shalamov-dlb (accessed December 12,2009).
  • Petrochenkov, Valery V. 'State-Sponsored Persecution as Violence: Varlam Shaiamov's Kolyma Tales.' In The Image of Violence in Literature, the Media, and Society, ed. Will Wright and Steven Kaplan. Pueblo, CO: Society for the Interdisciplinary Study of Social Imagery, University of Southern Colorado, 1995. p. 491-497.
  • Young, Sarah J. Shalamov’s Symbolism. Rebirth from Kolyma? Shalamov’s Cosmology of Alienation // BASEES Annual Conference, Cambridge 31 March-2 April 2007.

  • Reviews of Shalamov's Translations

  • Anello, Ray. Review of Kolyma TalesGulag Stories. Newsweek, June 9, 1980. 98.
  • Baran, H. Review of Kolyma Tales. Library Journal, December 1, 1981. 2333-2334.
  • Bayley, John. Review of Kolyma Tales. New York Times Book Review (85)18 (1980): 1, 34-35.
  • Chirpaz, Francois. Varlam Chalamov January, 1984. 113-114.
  • Contemporary Literary Criticism, (Shalamov) volume 18. ed. Sharon R. Gunton. Detroit: Gale Research Company, 1981. 478-480.
  • Cook, Judy. Review of Kolyma Tales.On All Fours. New Statesman, July 18, 1980. 22-24.
  • Dieness Laszlo. Review of Kolyma TalesVarlam Shalamov. Kolyma Tales. World Literature Today (54)4 (1980): 660-661.
  • Dunham, Vera S. ReviewKolyma Tales & Graphite. Slavic Review (41)3 (1982): 534- 537.
  • Evanier, David. Review of Kolyma TalesGold in the Process. The National Review, December 12, 1980. 1517-1518.
  • Gavin, William F. Review of Kolyma TalesA Book Carter Should Read. Human Events, September 6.
  • Gibian George. Review of Kolyma TalesSurviving the Gulag, New Leader 63 (1980): 17-18.
  • Glad, John. Book review of The Concise Literary Encyclopedia. Slavic and Eastern European Journal (25) 2 (1981): 80-90.
  • Haig, John. Review of Kolyma Tales.Kolyma Tales. Studies in Short Fiction (18)4 (1981): 476-477.
  • Harte Willis.Varlam Shalamov's Kolymskie Rasskazy Unpublished Master's Thesis. University of Iowa, December 1993. (a translated portion of this Thesis is published in Shalamovskii sbornik, vypusk 1. Vologda: Poligrafist, 1994. 236-240).
  • Hayward, Max. Forward to Russia's Other Writers: Selections from Samizdat Literature. ed. Michael Scammel. New York: Praeger Publishers, 1971.
  • Henryk, Baran. Review of Graphite. Library Journal 106 (Dec. 1, 1981): 2333.
  • Hoskings, Geoffrey. Review of Kolyma Tales.The Chekhov of the Camps. TLS 4046 (Oct. 17, 1980): 1163.
  • Hoskings, Geoffrey. Review of Graphite.The Elemental Struggle. TLS 44148 (Oct. 1, 1982): 1064.
  • Hoskings, Geoffrey. Review of Kolyma Tales.The Ultimate Circle of the Stalinist Inferno. New Universities Quarterly (2) 34 (1980): 161-168.
  • Howe, Irving. Beyond Bitterness. Kolyma Tales by Varlam Shalamov, translated by John Glad // The New York Times Review Of Books, Volume 27, Number 13, · August 14, 1980. p.36.
  • Kirkus Review, Janurary 15, 1980. Book Review of Kolyma Tales. 90.
  • Kirkus Review, August 15, 1981. Book Review of Kolyma Tales. 49.
  • Levin, Elena. Review of Graphite.Life in Gulag. Partisan Review (49)1 (1982): 154- 155.
  • MacSween, R. T. ReviewKolyma Tales. Antigonish Review 45 (1981): 105.
  • Martin, Jay.Graphite. New York Times Book Review (86)43 (1981): 11, 26.
  • Miller, Stephen. Review of Kolyma Tales. American Spectator, September, 1980. 35-37.
  • Newsweek, February 1, 1982. Obituary: Varlam Shalamov.
  • The New York Times, January 19, 1982.Varlam Shalamov is Dead at 74; Portrayed Stalin's Prison Camps.
  • The New York Times Book Review, February 28, 1982. Review of Kolyma Tales. p. 35.
  • Pritchett, V. S. Review of Kolyma Tales. "A Sense of the Day." The New Yorker, November 3, 1980. 198-202.
  • Publisher's Weekly, Janurary 25, 1980. Review of Kolyma Tales. 326.
  • Publisher's Weekly, August 21, 1981. Review of Graphite. 43.
  • Smith, Robert. Review of Kolyma Tales. "Notes from the House of the Dead." The Washington Post Book World, July 20, 1980. p. 4.
  • The Times (London), March 9, 1980. Review of Kolyma Tales. p. 35.
  • The Times January 20, 1982. Obituary: Varlam Shalamov.
  • Washington Post Book World, April 4, 1982. Book Review of Kolyma Tales and Graphite. 12.
  • Woll, Josephine. Review of Kolyma Tales. The New Republic, Sept. 27, 1980. 34-37.

Compiled by Sergey Soloviov.