Varlam Shalamov
Russian author whose Kolyma Tales, drawn from his seventeen years in the Gulag, are among the most harrowing and morally serious works of 20th-century literature. His spare, documentary prose refuses sentimentality.
Russian author whose Kolyma Tales, drawn from his seventeen years in the Gulag, are among the most harrowing and morally serious works of 20th-century literature. His spare, documentary prose refuses sentimentality.