Consider the collection of Shalamov, on which he worked from 1954 to 1962.We describe its summary."Kolyma Tales" - a collection of plot story that is a description of the camp and the prisoners of the Gulag prison life, their tragic fates, like one another, in which the right case.The author focuses on constantly hunger and satiety, agonizing death and recovery, the destruction, the moral humiliation and degradation.The problems raised by Shalamov, you will learn more by reading the summary."Kolyma Tales" - a collection which is the comprehension of what he saw and experienced author for 17 years, which he spent in prison (1929-1931) and Kolyma (1937 to 1951).Photo by the author is presented below.
eulogy
author recalls his comrades from the camps.We will not list their names, as it represents a summary."Kolyma Tales" - a collection in which the weave fiction and documentary.However, given all the murderers in the stories of the real name.
Continuing the story, the author describes how the prisoners died, what tortures experienced, talking about their hopes and behavior in the "Auschwitz without the ovens," as called Shalamov Kolyma camps.They managed to survive just as well stand and did not break morally - units.
"Life engineer Kipreeva"
Let us consider the following interesting story that we could not describe making summary."Kolyma Tales" - a collection in which the author, no one sold or betrayed, says for himself worked out a formula to protect its own existence.It consists in the fact that a person can survive if it is ready at any moment to death, may commit suicide.But later, he realizes that he built for himself a comfortable refuge, since it is unknown how you will be the decisive moment, will you have enough not only spiritual strength, but also physical.
fireweed, engineer and physicist, was arrested in 1938, was not only able to withstand the beating of interrogation, but even attacked the investigator, with the result that he was put in solitary confinement.Still trying to get him to perjury, threatening to arrest the couple.Fireweed nevertheless continues to prove to all that he is not a slave, like all prisoners, and people.Thanks to the talent (he repaired a broken X-ray machine, found a way to restore the faulty bulbs) this hero avoided the heaviest work, but not always.Only a miracle he is still alive, but the moral shock does not let him.
"On predstavku"
Shalamov, who wrote "Kolyma Tales", a summary of which we are concerned, shows that corruption came to camp in one degree or another everyone.It was carried out in various forms.We describe in a few words is another product from the book "Kolyma Tales" - "On predstavku."Summary of the plot of his next.
play cards, two thieves.One loses and asks to play duty.Stimulated by at some point, he suddenly ordered the prisoner of intellectuals, who was among the spectators accidentally, give the sweater.He refuses.His "Short" is one of the thieves, and the sweater gets blataryu anyway.
"night"
now describe another product from the book "Kolyma Tales" - "night."Summary him, in our opinion, would also be interesting to the reader.
to the grave steal two prisoners.It was buried in the morning the body of their comrade.They take off with the dead man's underwear to change tomorrow, tobacco or bread or sell.Fastidiously to clothes of the deceased is replaced by the idea that maybe tomorrow they will be able to smoke or eat a little more.
A lot of works in the collection "Kolyma Tales"."Carpenters", a summary of which we have omitted, follows the story of "The Night".Preview of the offer it on their own.Artwork by volume is small.The format of a single article, unfortunately, does not allow to describe all the stories.Also, very little work from the book "Kolyma Tales" - "Berries".Summary of the main and most interesting, in our view, the stories presented in this article.
"Single measurement"
Defined by the author as a slave labor camp - another form of corruption.The prisoner, exhausted they can not fulfill the norm, work turns into torture and leads to a slow killing.Dugal, snakes, growing weaker because of the 16-hour day.He sprinkles, Kyle carries.In the evening he made measures the superintendent.The figure of 25%, named caretaker seem very large Dugayeva.He unbearably sore shoulders, arms, head, aching calves.The prisoner did not even feel hungry already.Later, he was summoned to the investigator.He asks: "Name, surname, term paper."Soldiers in a day gone deaf prisoner to a place surrounded by a fence topped with barbed wire.At night, here comes the noise of tractors.Dugaev clue about why he was brought here, and understands that life is over.He regrets only that suffered a vain extra day.
"Rain"
is possible for a long time to talk about this collection as "Kolyma Tales".Summary of the heads of the works is only exploratory in nature.We offer you the following story - "Rain".
get acquainted with camp life working in the pits Rozovsky, the hero, which created Shalamov ("Kolyma Tales").Summary works dedicated to him "Rain" follows.Despite the escort made a threatening gesture, the narrator calls out Rozovskii working close to him to share a revelation.Rozovskii realized that life has no meaning.But before he whose life has lost all its value, time to attack the guards, runs up to him and saves the narrator from the disastrous and reckless actions, saying the guards that Rozovskii ill.The prisoner later tries to commit suicide, throwing himself under a truck.After the trial, he was sent to another place to work.
"Cherry Brandy"
poet-prisoner, who was considered the first poet of the 20th century in our country dies.He lay on his bunk, in the depth of the bottom row.Dying Poet long.Sometimes it comes myl, for example, that someone stole the bread, which the poet put it under his head.He is willing to look, fight, swear ... But this force is not.When he put his hand in the daily ration, he presses the bread to his mouth struggled sucks him trying to chew and tear staggering scorbutic teeth.When a poet dies, it does not write off another 2 days.Neighbors at hand can not receive it as the living bread.They make so that he raises his hand as puppet.
"shock therapy"
Merzlyakov, one of the heroes of the book "Kolmyskie stories", a summary of which we consider the large body of snakes, the works on the general understanding that the leases.He falls, he can not stand up and refuse to take the log.First he beat her, and then - the guards.It brought to the camp with low back pain and a broken rib.After recovery, Merzlyakov did not stop complaining and pretending that he could not straighten up.He does this in order to delay the statement.It is sent to the surgical ward of the central hospital, and then to study nervous.Merzlyakov have a chance to be attributed to the will of the disease.He struggles to not to be exposed.But Peter Ivanovich, doctor, himself a former ex-convict, he reveals.All human it displaces professional.He spends most of the time is to expose those who are faking.Petro anticipates effect that will make the case to Merzlyakov.The doctor first makes him the anesthesia, during which the body is unable to straighten Merzlyakov.A week later, the patient is prescribed shock therapy, after which he asks for the extract itself.
"Typhoid quarantine"
Andreev gets quarantined, ill with typhus.The patient in comparison with the works in the mines gives it a chance to survive, to which he hardly hoped.Andreev then decides to stay here as long as possible, and then, perhaps, it will not send more gold in rock faces, where death, beatings, starvation.Andreev did not respond to the roll call before sending recovered in the operation.He manages to hide in this way for a long time.Gradually emptied transit cell, turn comes, finally, to Andreev.But it seems now that the battle for life, he won, and if now be sent, only for local, short-range trips.But when a truck with a group of prisoners who suddenly issued winter uniforms, moved the line from far and near trips, Andreev understand that the fate of him laughed.
In the photo below - a plaque on the house in Vologda, where he lived Shalamov.
"aortic aneurysm"
In stories Shalamov the illness and the hospital - an indispensable attribute of the plot.Catherine Glovatskaya, prisoner admitted to the hospital.This beauty immediately attracted Zaitsev, the doctor on duty.He knows that she is in a relationship with the convict Podshivalova his friend, who runs a local amateur clubs, all the doctor decides to try his luck.As usual, he begins with a medical examination of the patient, to listen to the heart.However, men's interest is replaced by a medical concern.In Glowacki he discovers an aortic aneurysm.It is a disease in which every careless movement can cause death.Grasp the rule to separate the lovers superiors had already sent the girl to the free female mine.Head of the hospital after a doctor's report about her illness sure it intrigues Podshivalova who wants to hold a mistress.The girl was discharged, but she dies during loading, as warned Zaitsev.
"The last battle of Major Pugachev"
author suggests that after World War II began to arrive in camp prisoners who fought and went through captivity.These people are different hardening: who can take risks and bold.They believe only in the guns.Camp slavery they are not corrupted, they have not yet been exhausted before losing the will and effort.Their "fault" was that these prisoners were in captivity or in the environment.One of them, Major Pugachev, it was clear that they were brought here to die.He then collects the strong and resolute, to match themselves, prisoners who are ready to die or become free.Escape preparing all winter.Pugachev realized that running after survived the winter, can only those who manage to escape the general work.One by one, the participants in the conspiracy moving subservient.One of them became a chef, the other - kultorgom third repairing weapons for protection.
One spring day, at 5 am, knocked on the watch.Standby lets prisoner-cook, who, as usual, came for the keys to the storeroom.Cook it suffocates, and another prisoner is dressed in his uniform.With other duty, returning a little later, the same thing happens.Next, everything happens according to plan Pugacheva.The conspirators burst into the security room and seize weapons, shot dead on duty.They are stocking up with food and put on a military uniform, holding the fighters suddenly awakened at gunpoint.Going beyond the camp, they stopped a truck on the highway, the driver planted and go until the petrol ends.Then they go into the forest.Pugachev, waking up at night, after many months of captivity, recalled how in 1944, escaped from a German camp, crossed the front line, survived the interrogation in a special section, after which he was accused of espionage and sentenced to 25 years in prison.He remembers as well as in the German camp came emissaries of General Vlasov, who recruited Russian, arguing that captured soldiers for Soviet power - traitors.Then Pugachev they did not believe, but soon he was convinced.He looks with love of his comrades sleeping nearby.A little later tied hopeless battle with soldiers who surrounded the fugitives.Prisoners are killed almost all, except one, which cure after being seriously wounded in order to shoot.Only Pugachev manages to escape.He hid in a bear den, but he knows that he, too, will find.Oh, he does not regret his actions.His last shot - a.
Thus, we examined the main stories from the book, authored by Varlam Shalamov ("Kolyma Tales").Summary introduces the reader to major events.More information about them can be read in the pages of the work.The first collection published in 1966 Varlam Shalamov."Kolyma Tales", a summary of which you now know, appeared in the pages of the New York edition of the "New Journal".
in New York in 1966, were published only 4 stories.The following year, 1967, 26 stories by this author, mostly from the collection of interest to us, came out in German translation in the city of Cologne.In life, never published in the Soviet Union book "Kolyma Tales" Shalamov.Summary of all the chapters, unfortunately, is not included in the format of a single article, as the stories in the book very much.Therefore, we recommend familiarizing yourself with others.
"Condensed milk"
addition to the above, tell you about another product from the book "Kolyma Tales" - "condensed milk".Summary of his following.
Shestakov familiar narrator, did not work at the mine in the face, because he was an engineer-geologist, and he was taken to the office.He met with the narrator, and said he wanted to take a job and go to the Black Keys, to the sea.And although the latter realized that this is not feasible (the path to the sea is very long), he agreed.Narrator reasoned that Shestakov probably want to pass all those who will be involved in this.But the promise of condensed milk (to overcome the way, should eat) hired him.Going to Shestakov, he ate two cans of goodies.And then suddenly he said that he changed his mind.A week later, other workers fled.Two of them were killed, three were tried in a month.A Shestakov was transferred to another mine.
recommend reading the original and other works.Very talented Shalamov wrote "Kolyma Tales".Summary ("berries", "Rain" and "Baby Pictures" We also recommend that you read in the original) transmits only the plot.The author's style, art will appreciate can only become acquainted with the work itself.
Not included in the book "Kolyma Tales", "Maxim".Summary of the story we have not described for that reason.However, this work is one of the most mysterious in the works of Shalamov.Admirers of his talent will be interested to read it.
