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An NYRB Classics OriginalA masterpiece of Gulag literature, the complete__Kolyma Stories__is a thousand-page epic composed of short fictional tales based on Russian writer Varlam Shalamov’s fifteen years in the Gulag. He spent six years as a slave in the gold mines of Kolyma, a far northeast region of the USSR and one of the coldest and most inhospitable places on Earth, before finding a less intolerable life as a paramedic in the prison camps. He began writing his six-volume prose account of life in Kolyma after Stalin’s death in 1953 and continued until his own physical and mental decline in the late 1970s.__Kolyma Stories__comprises the first three volumes of Shalamov’s tales. The line between autobiography and fiction is indistinct: Everything in these stories was experienced or witnessed by Shalamov. His work records the real names of prisoners and their oppressors; he himself appears simply as “I” or “Shalamov,” or at times under a pseudonym, such as Andreyev or Krist. These collected stories form the biography of a rare survivor, a historical record of the Gulag, and, because the stories have more than documentary value, a literary work of creative power and conviction.

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Author

Shalamov, Varlam; Rayfield, Donald

Publisher

New York Review of Books, Incorporated, The

Published

2018

Language

EN

ISBN

9781681372150

Category

work of fiction

Subjects

Literary Fiction, Fiction, Short Stories

Rating

4.7 / 5 (153 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14