Kolyma Tales

4 hrs. 56 min.

Classics

Language Russian

Author Varlam Shalamov

Narrator Yury Lazarev

Description

Literary scholars and critics regard «Kolyma Tales» as a documentary historical testimony that captured the great catastrophe of humanity in the twentieth century. It is a panorama of the life, suffering, and death of people in the camp empire in the northeast of the USSR, which occupied an area of more than two million square kilometers. In his stories, Varlam Shalamov goes beyond merely describing all the horrors of the Soviet Gulag. He does not try to frighten readers. He does not call fear by name. But when reading or listening to his works, one can literally feel with one’s skin all the horror contained in them. «Kolyma Tales» are shattering; they demand not only empathy, but also a reassessment of one’s own life, a certain moral conclusion.