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Sketches of the Criminal World by Varlam Shalamov Non fiction russian the impetuous Polina who hadTranslated by Donald Rayfield, with an introduction by Alissa Valles. In 1936, Varlam Shalamov, a journalist and writer, was arrested for counterrevolutionary activities and sent to the Soviet Gulag. He survived fifteen years in the prison camps and returned from the Far North to write one of the masterpieces of twentieth century literature, an epic array of short fictional tales reflecting the years he spent in the Gulag. Sketches of the Criminal