The Gulag in Writings of Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn and Varlam Shalamov

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Fabian Heffermehl ◽  
Irina Karlsohn
Keyword(s):  
Varlam Shalamov

Varlam Shalamov. Rilke and Drozhzhin

2021 ◽  
Vol 1 (6) ◽  
pp. 134-140
Author(s):  
Marina Yu. Koreneva ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Main Achievement ◽  
Archival Material ◽  
Introductory Article ◽  
The Future ◽  
History Of ◽  
Varlam Shalamov ◽  
First Time ◽  
Academic Study

In the publication V.T. Shalamov’s notes of the early 1970s about the meeting of the famous Austrian poet R.M. Rilke with the peasant poet S.D. Drozhzhin are introduced into academic study for the first time. The meeting took place in 1900 during Rilke’s second trip to Russia. The notes preserved in Shalamov’s archives represent preliminary observations for the future essay, which remained unfinished. The introductory article traces the history of Shalamov’s acquaintance with Rilke’s work and reconstructs Rilke’s image as perceived by Shalamov in the context of his biography and work. It also reconstructs, on the basis of letters and notebooks, the stages of an unrealized plan related to the theme of “Rilke and Drozhzhin”, suggested to Shalamov by B.L. Pasternak, but read by him in the subjective optics of the poet, who considered his main achievement “understanding of nature”. This subjective optics, which distinguishes Shalamov’s text from all subsequent interpretations of this historical and literary plot, is manifested especially clearly in the correlation of the figures of Rilke and Drozhzhin with Soviet writers who were Shalamov’s contemporaries (Tvardovsky, Dzhambul, Stalsky, etc.). The new archival material makes it possible to supplement the picture of the Soviet “Rilkeana” and to expand the understanding of Shalamov’s range of interests.

scholarly journals The hospital in The Kolyma Tales by Varlam Shalamov

2013 ◽  
Vol 13 ◽  
pp. 269-278
Author(s):  
Małgorzata Kulikowska
Keyword(s):  
Varlam Shalamov

Um Varlam Shalamov

Milli mála ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
pp. 153-155
Author(s):  
Áslaug Agnarsdóttir
Keyword(s):  
Varlam Shalamov

"With a Shade of Disgust": Affective Politics of Sexuality and Class in Memoirs of the Stalinist Gulag

Slavic Review ◽  
2009 ◽  
Vol 68 (2) ◽  
pp. 308-328 ◽  
Author(s):  
Adi Kuntsman
Keyword(s):  
Gender Norms ◽  
Sexual Morality ◽  
Critical Reading ◽  
Same Sex ◽  
The Social ◽  
Universal Category ◽  
The Common ◽  
Varlam Shalamov ◽  
The Individual

This article addresses a topic seldom discussed in gulag studies: same-sex relations in the camps. In particular, it deals with affective politics of sexuality and class in gulag memoirs and the role of disgust in the formation of sexual and class boundaries. It approaches disgust as existing between the individual and the social, the subjective and the historical, the internal and the external, and traces the ways the gulag memoirs constitute the disgusting, the disgusted, and the boundary between them. At the center of the article are descriptions of same-sex relations in the Kolyma camps of the 1930s-1950s by Evgenia Ginzburg and Varlam Shalamov. Based on a critical reading of these and other memoirs, Adi Kuntsman reveals how same-sex relations among the common criminals are constructed by the memoirists as disgusting because they go against gender norms and against class perceptions of sexual morality. Kuntsman shows how these perceptions of the appropriate, embedded within the habitus of the intelligentsia, are transformed in the memoirs into the universal category of humanness, locating the common criminals, and, by association, anyone who engages in same-sex relations, beyond the bounds of humanity.

scholarly journals An Episode from the History of the Camp Literature: Varlam Shalamov’s Unknown Review

2020 ◽  
Vol 3 ◽  
pp. 242-250
Author(s):  
K. L. Filimonova ◽  
Keyword(s):  
History Of ◽  
Varlam Shalamov

In 1958–1965, Varlam Shalamov worked as a freelance reviewer for the Noviy Mir magazine. Shalamov highly estimated and recommended for publication one novel, that came in as a manuscript by an «amateur» author. The story, written by a former GULAG prisoner, a doctor from Kazan A. P. Tchigarin, shares many themes, plots, and artistic assessments with Shalamov’s "Kolyma Tales".

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