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MAXIMOV SERGEI (1916-1967) Taiga. New York: Chekhov Publishing House, 1952.

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– 208 pp.; 22x14 cm. In the publisher's paperback cover. Good condition. Fading of the cover edges and minor scuffs. Sergei Sergeevich Maximov (real surname Pashin; 1916-1967) was a Russian prose writer, poet, and playwright. He was a representative of the second wave of Russian emigration. From 1936 to 1941, he was imprisoned in a concentration camp in Pechora, and in 1943 he emigrated to Germany. The writer's novel Denis Bushuev (1949) and collection of short stories Taiga significantly preceded the 'camp prose' of A. Solzhenitsyn and V. Shalamov. Taiga is a collection of 15 stories about life in Soviet concentration camps. It is one of the first examples of Soviet 'camp' prose.


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