Research Catalog

Title

The Gulag in writings of Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn and Varlam Shalamov : memory, history, testimony / edited by Fabian Heffermehl, Irina Karlsohn.

Publication

Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2021]

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Details

Additional Authors

• Heffermehl, Fabian
• Karlson, Irina

Description

xi, 296 pages; 25 cm.

Summary

"Alexander Solzhenitsyn and Varlam Shalamov are two of the best-known Gulag writers. After a short period of personal acquaintance, their lives and views on literature took different paths. Solzhenitsyn did not see a literary program in Shalamov's works, which he describes as "a result of exhaustion after years of hardship and hard labour in the camp". By understanding the text as a "result", Solzhenitsyn critically touched on a concept of evidence, which Shalamov several times emphasized as important to his own works. According to Shalamov, instead of the text being a re-presentation, it should be an extract from or substitute for the real or the factual, by which his Gulag experience became present once again. Concepts such as "document", "thing" and "fact" became important for Shalamov's self-identification as a modernist. At the same time, Solzhenitsyn, viewing his own task as one of restoring historical experiences of the Russian people and trying "to explain the slow course of history and what sort of one it has been", assumed the dual role of writer and historian, which inevitably raises the question of what characterizes the borders between fact and fiction in his works. It also raises question about dichotomies of historical and fictional truth"--

Series Statement

Studies in Slavic literature and poetics, 0169-0175 ; volume 63

Uniform Title

Studies in Slavic literature and poetics ; v. 63.

Subject

• Solzhenit︠s︡yn, Aleksandr Isaevich, 1918-2008 > Criticism and interpretation
• Shalamov, Varlam > Criticism and interpretation
• Shalamov, Varlam
• Solzhenit͡syn, Aleksandr Isaevich, 1918-2008
• 1900-1999
• Russian prose literature > 20th century > History and criticism
• Penal colonies in literature
• Memory in literature
• Russian prose literature

Genre/Form

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Part 1. Literary origins. Discontinuities in the evolution of Kolyma Stories and "One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich" / Michael A. Nicholson ; Poetry after the Gulag: do Solzhenitsyn and Shalamov have a lyric mindset? / Ulrich Schmid ; More than a cat : reflections on Shalamov's and Solzhenitsyn's writings through the perspective of trauma studies / Andrea Gullotta -- Part 2. Memory and body. Why did Solzhenitsyn and Shalamov not write the Gulag Archipelago together? / Luba Jurgenson ; Tactility and memory in Shalamov / Fabian Heffermehl ; "Grudge-holding body": body and memory in the works of Varlam Shalamov / Franziska Thun-Hohenstein ; Certain properties of rhyme: poetic language touching abomination / Irina Sandomirskaia -- Part 3. History and narrative. Counterfactuals and history in The Gulag Archipelago / Irina Karlsohn ; "The Gulag's Archipelago" : rhetoric of history / Elena Mikhailik ; Telling the stories of others and writing the bodies of others: the representation of women in Shalamov's Kolyma Stories and Solzhenitsyn's The Gulag Archipelago / Josefina Lundblad-Janjić ; The issue of "softening" and the problem of addressivity in Solzhenitsyn and Shalamov / Leona Toker.

Call Number

JFE 21-9150

ISBN

• 9789004468450
• 9004468455

LCCN

• 2021028446
• 9789004468450

OCLC

1258039893

Title

The Gulag in writings of Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn and Varlam Shalamov : memory, history, testimony / edited by Fabian Heffermehl, Irina Karlsohn.

Publisher

Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2021]

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Series

Studies in Slavic literature and poetics, 0169-0175 ; volume 63

Studies in Slavic literature and poetics ; v. 63.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Chronological Term

1900-1999

Added Author

Heffermehl, Fabian, editor.

Karlson, Irina, editor.

Other Standard Identifier

9789004468450

Research Call Number

JFE 21-9150