« Douces choses férocement lointaines » : deux lectures de Proust dans les camps soviétiques by Guillaume Perrier

“…To answer this question, one should compare Joseph Czapski’s and Varlam Shalamov’s experiences : although these two authors didn’t know each other, Proust’s book represented for both of them, to some extent, a tool of resistance against the Soviet power, which was aiming their psychological and moral annihilation. …”
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«Save the Man». In way of documentary and exhibition project by Yu. Z. Kantor

“…The article is dedicated to the life and fate of a doctor, a graduate of the Omsk Medical Institute Andrei Pantyukhov — a man whom the famous writer Varlam Shalamov considered his friend and savior. Dr. …”
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