THE PUBLICATION HISTORY of Varlam Shalamov’s Kolyma Stories (KS) — six cycles about the Gulag, where the author spent nearly 18 years of his life — resembles a violent battle, the casualty of which was Shalamov himself. It was common for his early publishers in both the samizdat underground publication network in the USSR and […]
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