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read in conjunction with Alexander Solschenizyn and other gulag authors. Schalamow, though, stood rather in the shadow of Nobel prizewinner Solschenizyn. It wasn’t until shortly before his death in 1982 [...] War era. Yakov Klots goes on to explain, “For me, Schalamow’s appeal doesn’t lie in dissidence, but rather in his literary style and the new genre in which he wrote – the so-called ‘new prose‘“. Klots was [...] Yakov Klots is quick to point out, “It was not solely a matter of ‘who had suffered the most’, but rather one of the fundamentally different literary form, genre, and style in which they wrote.” The Cold