Chalámov e Tchekhov: a distância certa para narrar

• Main Author: Mendes Neto, Joaquim Ferreira
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: Portuguese
• Published: Universidade de São Paulo. Faculdade de Filosofia, Letras e Ciências Humanas. 2022
• Subjects: Tales of Kolyma; Gulag literature; Humanist criticism; New prose; Contos de Kolimá; Literatura de Gulag; Crítica humanista; Nova prosa; Kolyma; Sakhalin
• Online Access: https://www.revistas.usp.br/rus/article/view/198166

The Tales of Kolyma are considered Varlam Shalamov's greatest work. Based on the writer's dialogue with Anton Chekhov's Sakhalin Island and on Shalamov's reading of 19th century prose, this article discusses some formal elements of Shalamov's literary text with a view to pre...