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- Title
ASIAN AND EUROPEAN INFERNOS IN LITERATURE." CONCEPTS OF THE SKIN IN VARLAM SHALAMOV'S KOLYMA TALES AND IMRE KERTÉSZ' NOVEL FATELESS.
- Authors
BURKHART, DAGMAR
- Abstract
A literary criticism is presented which examines the theme of skin in literature on 20th century prison camps, focusing on the "Kolyma Tales," collections of short stories by Varlam Shalamov, and "Sorstalanság," or "Fateless," a novel by Imre Kertész. Shalamov addresses the Soviet Gulag system in Kolyma in Siberia, Russia, while Kertész depicts the life of a Jewish teenager in the Nazi concentration camps at Auschwitz-Birkenau in Poland and Buchenwald in Germany. Cold and hunger are explored.
- Subjects
KOLYMA Tales (Book); SORSTALANSAG (Book); SHALAMOV, Varlam Tikhonovich; KERTESZ, Imre, 1929-2016; SKIN in literature; CONCENTRATION camps in literature; GULAG (Soviet Union); HUNGER in literature
- Publication
Gulag Studies, 2009, Vol 2/3, p83
- ISSN
1947-9948
- Publication type
Literary Criticism