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"This is a ground-breaking book on a subject of capital importance, and I think [it] should start a debate about modern literature with a rich potential for further development." —Michael Scammell Return from the Archipelago is the first comprehensive historical survey and critical analysis of the vast body of narrative literature about the Soviet gulag. Leona Toker organizes and characterizes both fictional narratives and survivors' memoirs as she explores the changing hallmarks of the genre from the 1920s through the Gorbachev era. Toker reflects on the writings and testimonies that shed light on the veiled aspects of totalitarianism, dehumanization, and atrocity. Identifying key themes that recur in the narratives-arrest, the stages of trial, imprisonment, labor camps, exile, escapes, special punishment, the role of chance, and deprivation.Toker discusses the historical, political, and social contexts of these accounts and the ethical and aesthetic imperative they fulfill. Her readings provide extraordinary insight into the prisoners' experiences of the Soviet penal system. Special attention is devoted to the writings of Varlam Shalamov and Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, but many works that are not well known in the West, especially those by women, are addressed. Consideration is also given to events that recently brought many memoirs to light years after they were written. A pioneering book on an important subject, Return from the Archipelago is an authoritative resource for scholars in Russian history and literature.

Table of Contents:
Preliminary Acknowledgments A Note on Sources Introduction 1. Soviet Labor Camps: A Brief History 2. The Literary Corpus: Memoirs 3. Camp 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

About the Author :
Leona Toker is Professor of English at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem. Her previous works include Nabokov: The Mystery of Literary Structures and Eloquent Reticence: Withholding Information in Fictional Narrative.

Review :
"This is a ground-breaking book on a subject of capital importance, and I think [it] could start a debate about modern literature with rich potential for further development." - Michael Scammell


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9780253337870
  • Publisher: Indiana University Press
  • Publisher Imprint: Indiana University Press
  • Height: 235 mm
  • No of Pages: 352
  • Sub Title: Narratives of Gulag Survivors
  • Width: 156 mm
  • ISBN-10: 0253337879
  • Publisher Date: 22 Dec 2000
  • Binding: Hardback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: 01
  • Weight: 730 gr


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