Fragmented Lives - Chronicles of the Gulag (Paperback)

In Fragmented 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 Life 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."

General

Imprint:	Karolinum,Nakladatelstvi Univerzity Karlovy,Czech Republic
Country of origin:	Czech Republic
Release date:	April 2018
Authors:	Jacques Rossi
Translators:	Marie-Cecile Antonelli-Speed
Dimensions:	150 x 189 x 17mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	160
ISBN-13:	978-80-246-3700-6
Categories:	Books > Humanities > History > European history > General Books > History > European history > General Promotions
LSN:	80-246-3700-6
Barcode:	9788024637006

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