Bibliograph

Fragments of lives, chronicles of the Gulag, Jacques Rossi, in collaboration with Sophie Benech

Type

Label

Fragments of lives, chronicles of the Gulag, Jacques Rossi, in collaboration with Sophie Benech

Language

eng

resource.biographical

autobiography

Illustrations

illustrations

Index

no index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Fragments of lives

Oclc number

1020601598

Responsibility statement

Jacques Rossi, in collaboration with Sophie Benech

Series statement

Václav Havel series

Sub title

chronicles of the Gulag

Summary

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. --, Provided by publisher

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