Varlam Shalamov lived a long life encompassing almost the entire 20th century: the revolution, the turbulent literary life of the twenties, years of suffering in Kolyma, and after the camp — the thaw, the flourishing of "Novy Mir" and the onset of stagnation. From hundreds of poems, essays, notes, articles, and memoirs emerges the portrait of a century through the eyes of a writer who created one of the most terrifying books in Russian literature — "Kolyma Tales". Ksenia Filimonova's book is dedicated to Shalamov's life after the camp, his literary connections, thoughts on how to write "after the shame of Kolyma," and his work on his own method, which he called "new prose." The author examines an almost thirty-year process of aestheti