(H/B) RETURN FROM THE ARCHIPELAGO
NARRATIVES OF GULAG SURVIVORS
TOKER LEONAΚωδ. Πολιτείας: 2161-0119
Παρουσίαση
Almost every national, ethnic, or professional group on either side of the border of the former Soviet Union has its own favorite Gulag memoir, one that speaks in the language of its own culture. Readers may therefore be disappointed at opening this book and not finding references to the books that have been important in their lives. No apology for the omission might suffice here, but I must offer some explanations: the vastness of the corpus, the inaccessibility of many books, the language barrier. I have, for instance, gained access to some memoirs by Lithuanian Gulag survivors, but not books written in Latvian, Estonian, or the Transcaucasian and Central Asian languages. The plight of the prisoners of World War II in the Soviet Union has been similar to, yet also significantly different from, that of Gulag inmates. Their books remain, regrettably, outside the scope of this study -despite the gracious help of Professor Emiko Ohnuki-Tierney of the University of Wisconsin in Madison concerning the Japanese POWs. It has likewise proved nearly impossible to keep track of all the new publications that have appeared, both in Russian and in foreign languages, since the so-called Second Russian Revolution. I have endeavored to study the landmark works of the corpus and record the conclusions of this fourteen-year-long process in the present book, with various degrees of brevity, hoping that the periodization of the Gulag corpus suggested here as well as the description of the Gulag memoir genre might, in principle, accommodate the sources that for one or more of the above reasons have not been examined.The idea of this book was born in long and fruitful conversations that it was my good fortune to have with Anatoly and Irina Khazanov, now of the University of Wisconsin in Madison. [...] (From the publisher)
Περιεχόμενα
AcknowledgmentsA Note on Sources
A Note on Transliteration
Introduction
1. Soviet Labor Camps: A Brief History
2. The Literary Corpus
3. Gulag Memoirs as a Genre
4. The Gulag Archipelago
5. From Factography to Fictionalization
6. Varlam Shalamov
7. The Gulag Fiction of Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
8. In the Wake of Testimony
Notes
Works Cited
Index
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