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Fragments of Lives: Chronicles of the Gulag - Couverture souple

Rossi, Jacques

 
9788024637006: Fragments of Lives: Chronicles of the Gulag
Couverture souple
ISBN 10 : 8024637006 ISBN 13 : 9788024637006
Editeur : Karolinum,Nakladatelstvi Univerzity Karlovy,Czech Republic, 2018

Synopsis

In Fragments of Lives, Gulag survivor Jacques Rossi opens a window onto everyday life inside the notorious Soviet prison camp through a series of portraits of inmates and camp personnel across all walks of life--from workers to peasants, soldiers, civil servants, and party apparatchiks. Featuring Rossi's original illustrations and written in a tone as sharp and dry as that of Russian writer Varlam Shalamov, Rossi's vignettes are also filled with surprising humor. A former agent in the Spanish Civil War and a lifelong Communist, Rossi never considered himself a victim. Instead, in the manner of Primo Levi, Solzhenitsyn, and Margaret Buber-Neumann, he sought to share and transmute his experience within the living hell of the Gulag. In so doing, he gives voice to the inmates whose lives were shattered by one of the most corrupt and repressive regimes of the twentieth century.

An impassioned reminder to always question one's beliefs, to have the courage to give up one's illusions at the risk of one's life, Fragments of Lives lays bare, with acute observations and biting wit, the falsity of the Soviet utopia that transformed Rossi's home into a "huge Potemkin village, a farcical sham dissimulating oceans of mud and blood."

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À propos de l'auteur

A liaison agent during the Spanish Civil War, French-Polish author Jacques Rossi (1909-2004) was imprisoned in the Gulag from 1937 to 1956. He is the author of a comprehensive and monumental dictionary on the Soviet Union, The Gulag Handbook.

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Éditeur
Karolinum,Nakladatelstvi Univerzity Karlovy,Czech Republic
Date d'édition
2018
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
8024637006
ISBN 13 
9788024637006
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
160
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Personne responsable
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