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The name of Varlam Shalamov is known to readers, first of all, thanks to the "Kolyma Tales". Shalamov's prose, a merciless and precise testimony about the GULAG, occupies one of the most significant pages in the history of Russian literature of the 20th century. Meanwhile, Shalamov himself considered himself more a poet than a prose writer. Remaining in the shadow of the camp stories, Shalamov's poetic works make up a significant part of his creative legacy. According to the author, poetry was for him a "saving amulet" and a source of strength in the inhuman conditions of camp life, his "guiding star". Immersing himself in world culture and history, turning his gaze to nature, Shalamov writes his "lyrical diary", poems that are simultaneously "clear and incomprehensible". This edition includes poetic works that made up the cycle “Kolyma Notebooks” (1949–1953), created in the Far North, as well as selected poems written in different years after returning from the camp.
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