"To Rasshcheplennoe Iadro": From Lucretian Swerve to Sundered Core in Shalamov’s Atomnaia poema

Varlam Shalamov's Atomnaia poema addresses a primordial "wish to split" at the core of nature and within the human heart. This wish to split is informed by Shalamov's Gulag experience as well as his reflections on Auschwitz and the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Where...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Larson, Kirstin
Other Authors: Hokanson, Katya
Language:en_US
Published: University of Oregon 2015
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1794/19340