Preso pela primeira vez em 1929 e de novo em 1937, Chalámov só voltou a Moscou em 1956. Os contos foram publicados aos poucos no exterior a partir de 1966 e, na União Soviética, apenas em 1988, seis anos depois da morte do autor.
Kolyma Tales
A cycle of short stories about the seventeen years the author spent in the camps, most of them in the gold mines of Kolyma, in the far north-east of Siberia.
See also
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MG-00051973BookThe Gulag Archipelago
A three-volume “experiment in literary investigation”, written in secret between 1958 and 1968 from the author’s own experience and the accounts of more than two hundred former prisoners.
MG-00071967TestimonyJourney into the Whirlwind
The memoir of a teacher and communist from Kazan arrested in 1937, at the height of the Great Terror, and sentenced to ten years, from interrogation to the first years of labour in Kolyma.
MG-00011919Official document