SHALAMOV'S TESTIMONY

• Authors: Chwedenczuk Bohdan
• Languages of publication: PL

Abstracts

EN

This essay consists of two parts - historical and philosophical one. In the historical part, the author provides the reasoned overview of Kolyma, i.e., a system of Soviet labour camps in northeastern Siberia. The view is based on a Russian novelist and poet - who spent there a dozen or more years - Varlam Shalamov's 'Kolyma Tales'. In the philosophical part, the author tackles the issue of to what Kolyma does not testify, and to what it does testify. It does not testify - contrary to the sentimental myth - that in the order of values, a good man surpasses and will surpass an evil man, even in Kolyma. It does not testify either - contrary to the liberal myth - that Kolyma is exclusively a product of totalitarisms. It testifies instead that the human being is evil.

Keywords

EN

SHALAMOV VARLAM (KOLYMA TALES)

Discipline

• PHILOSOPHY: PHILOSOPHY

• Publisher: Warsaw University, Institute of Philosophy, Institute of Polish Literature and Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw
• Journal: Przegląd Filozoficzno-Literacki
• Year: 2008
• Volume: 6
• Issue: 2-3(20)
• Pages: 93-105
• Document type: ARTICLE

Contributors

author

Chwedenczuk Bohdan

• Bohdan Chwedenczuk, c/o Uniwersytet Warszawski, Instytut Filozofii, ul. Krakowskie Przedmiescie 3, 00-047 Warszawa, Poland

Identifiers

CEJSH db identifier

09PLAAAA06797