A Mind Purified by Suffering: Evgenia Ginzburg’s "Whirlwind" Memoirs (The Real Twentieth Century Series) - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 13: 9798887191706

Publisher: Academic Studies Press, 2023

Synopsis

“A Mind Purified by Suffering": Evgenia Ginzburg’s "Whirlwind" Memoirs represents the first book on one of Russia’s most important classics of Gulag literature. Ginzburg’s memoirs of her eighteen-year ordeal through Stalinist concentration camps, Journey into the Whirlwind and Within the Whirlwind, place her in the company of Russian writers, such as Alexander Solzhenitsyn and Varlam Shalamov. The contributors address Ginzburg’s Gulag experience through various vantage points, covering such topics as: memory, trauma, motherhood, love, survival strategies, and metafictional structures. The volume also provides a history of prison camp writings, capped with her biography, analysis of her correspondence with her son, Vasily Aksenov, and an interview with him.  

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About the Author

Olga M. Cooke is Associate Professor of Russian at Texas A&M University.  She is the editor of Andrey Bely’s Petersburg: A Centennial Celebration (Academic Studies Press, 2017), and Gulag Studies. In addition to her publications on Ginzburg, Bely, and Gulag literature, she is completing a book on Bely’s correspondence. 

Edition details

• Publisher: Academic Studies Press
• Publication date: 2023
• Language: English
• ISBN 13: 9798887191706
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 250
• Editor: Olga M. Cooke