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Writing Life. Varlam Shalamov: Biography and Poetics

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In the camp, Varlam Shalamov was reduced to the level of human material, disposed of by others and whose destruction was a foregone conclusion. A survivor in both life and work, he resisted any encroachment on his ego. Freely disposing of his life and fully retaining the supreme right to interpret his fate in words was as much a treasure for him as the authenticity of the feeling from which each written word was born. His poetry and prose were based on what he himself had seen and learned. Speaking of his work, he once said: "I am the chronicler of my own soul. Nothing more." In all his texts, he closely linked his own life with modern Russian history. His strategy of recollection requires historical knowledge. It is designed for a reader willing to repeatedly question their own thoughts and actions. Franziska Thun-Hohenstein is a literary scholar and Senior Fellow at the Center for Literary and Cultural Research, Berlin.

Varlam Tikhonovich Shalamov was a Russian Soviet writer and poet, best known as the author of the series of short stories and essays "Kolyma Tales," which chronicles the lives of prisoners in Soviet forced labor camps from the 1930s to the 1950s.
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