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Camp and Literature: Testimonies about the Gulag

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Camp and Literature: Testimonies about the Gulag
19.99 €
One of the main consequences of the Gulag is the loss of familiar humanistic and cultural references, the inconsistency of previous categories of thought and speech with the new circumstances of the catastrophe. Autobiographies, diaries, and survivors' stories seek to translate this physical and psychological experience of suffering into the language of literature, but time and again they encounter one difficulty or another. Renate Lachmann's book offers a literary analysis of a large-scale corpus of testimonial texts about the Gulag, from Yevgenia Ginzburg, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, and Varlam Shalamov to Julius Margolin and Karl Steiner. The camp theme in the work of writers of later generations, notably Danilo Kish and Olivier Rolen, is also examined. On what formal principles is the poetics of camp writing based? What is the relationship between documentary and fiction in these texts? And what knowledge about man and humanity does this literary tradition seek to reveal to us? In search of answers to these questions, the author offers her own reading of famous camp texts, while giving the floor to the victims of the Gulag themselves. Renate Lachmann is a Slavist, cultural historian, and author of the book Discourses of the Fantastic, published by UFO.
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