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Varlam Tikhonovich Shalamov (Russian: Варла́м Ти́хонович Шала́мов; 18 June 1907 – 17 January 1982), baptized as Varlaam, was a Russian writer, journalist, poet and Gulag survivor.
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Jun 27, 2024 · Varlam Shalamov (born June 18 [July 1, New Style], 1907, Vologda, Russia—died Jan. 17, 1982, Moscow, Russia, U.S.S.R.) was a Russian writer best known for a series of short stories about imprisonment in Soviet labour camps.
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Kolyma Tales or Kolyma Stories (Russian: Колымские рассказы, Kolymskiye rasskazy) is the name given to six collections of short stories by Russian author Varlam Shalamov, about labour camp life in the Soviet Union. Most stories are documentaries and reflect the personal experience by Shalamov.
- From the story Carpenters. "But the cold kept up, and Potashnikov knew he couldn’t hold out any longer. Breakfast sustained his strength for no more than an hour of work, and then exhaustion ensued.
- From the story In the Night. “Are you a doctor?” asked Bagretsov, sucking the wound. Glebov remained silent. The time when he had been a doctor seemed very far away.
- From the story Quiet. We tried to work, but our lives were too distant from anything that could be expressed in figures, wheelbarrows, or percent of plan.
- From the story Dry Rations. We were all tired of barracks food. Each time they brought in the soup in large zinc tubs suspended on poles, it made us all want to cry.
Jan 17, 2020 · The son of a priest and a teacher, Varlam Shalamov saw himself as a writer from childhood. A Trotskyist, first arrested in 1929, he spent 20 of the next 25 years in Kolyma, a vast labour camp...
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I learned that friendship and solidarity never arise in difficult, truly severe conditions — when life is at stake. Friendship arises in difficult but bearable conditions (in the hospital, but not in the mine). 4. I learned that spite is the last human emotion to survive.
