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**lh88gFzI** · 07-14-2008, 09:04 PM

I came to One Day in the Life after The Gulag Archipelago myself. Not to take anything away from the former, but it isn't alone; a brief I posted last year:

Varlam Shalamov, Kolyma Tales (trans John Glad): A part of the Gulag Archipelago Solzhenitsyn left unexplored due to this effort, a hybrid of testament and (as Glad says, Chekhovian) short story. Shalamov (or Glad?) saves the best for the last sections, "The Virtuoso Shovelman" and "The Resurrection of the Larch", when the territory covered expands beyond the work camps.

07-14-2008, 09:04 PM	#10
lh88gFzI Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 555 Senior Member	I came to One Day in the Life after The Gulag Archipelago myself. Not to take anything away from the former, but it isn't alone; a brief I posted last year: Varlam Shalamov, Kolyma Tales (trans John Glad): A part of the Gulag Archipelago Solzhenitsyn left unexplored due to this effort, a hybrid of testament and (as Glad says, Chekhovian) short story. Shalamov (or Glad?) saves the best for the last sections, "The Virtuoso Shovelman" and "The Resurrection of the Larch", when the territory covered expands beyond the work camps.
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