Kolyma Tales

E218179

book short story collection

Kolyma Tales is a renowned collection of short stories by Varlam Shalamov that depicts the brutal realities of life and survival in the Soviet Gulag system.

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All labels observed (2)

Label	Occurrences
Kolyma Tales canonical	2
Kolyma Tales cycle of short stories	1

Statements (51)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	book ⓘ short story collection ⓘ
author	Varlam Shalamov ⓘ
basedOn	Varlam Shalamov's Gulag experiences ⓘ
comparedTo	The Gulag Archipelago ⓘ
countryOfOrigin	Soviet Union ⓘ
form	cycle of stories ⓘ
genre	Gulag literature ⓘ autobiographical fiction ⓘ prison literature ⓘ short stories ⓘ
hasPart	individual short stories about camp life ⓘ
hasReception	considered a classic of Gulag literature ⓘ highly regarded in Russian literature ⓘ
influenced	later accounts of the Gulag ⓘ scholarship on Soviet repression ⓘ
languageStyle	minimalist ⓘ unsentimental ⓘ
literaryMovement	Russian literature ⓘ dissident literature ⓘ
mainSubject	Yakutsk region ⓘ surface form: Kolyma region Gulag system ⓘ surface form: Soviet Gulag dehumanization ⓘ forced labor camps ⓘ human suffering ⓘ moral degradation ⓘ political repression in the Soviet Union ⓘ survival ⓘ
narrativePerspective	first-person ⓘ
notableFor	austere prose style ⓘ bleak worldview ⓘ depiction of brutal realities of Gulag life ⓘ influence on Gulag literature ⓘ
originalLanguage	Russian ⓘ
portrays	camp guards ⓘ criminal inmates ⓘ political prisoners ⓘ prisoners ⓘ
publicationStatus	circulated in samizdat in the Soviet Union ⓘ published abroad before official Soviet publication ⓘ
setting	Kolyma River ⓘ surface form: Kolyma Soviet labor camps ⓘ
theme	death ⓘ extreme conditions ⓘ loss of humanity ⓘ memory ⓘ truth-telling about state crimes ⓘ violence ⓘ
timePeriodDescribed	1930s ⓘ 1940s ⓘ Stalin era ⓘ

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Soviet literature → notableWork → Kolyma Tales ⓘ

Varlam Shalamov → notableWork → Kolyma Tales ⓘ

Varlam Shalamov → hasPartInCollection → Kolyma Tales ⓘ

this entity surface form: Kolyma Tales cycle of short stories