Grossman's EVERYTHING FLOWS: camps for women?

[Elena A. Arkhipova]

I think this article and reference books might be of help:

http://www.owl.ru/library/042t.htm

Unhuman conditions were not about being a camp "where men never set foot", I 
believe. One of my grand-aunts was there, and her stories are heart-freezing 
indeed.

Elena.


Elena A. Arkhipova, PhD, MBA
Chair of Department of
Russian as a Foreign Language,
Program Coordinator
Nevsky Institute of  Language and Culture
27 Bolshaya Raznochinnaya
St. Petersburg, 197110, Russia
tel./fax: +7 812 230 36 98

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Paul B. Gallagher" <paulbg at PBG-TRANSLATIONS.COM>
To: <SEELANGS at bama.ua.edu>
Sent: Thursday, May 21, 2009 1:24 PM
Subject: Re: [SEELANGS] Grossman's EVERYTHING FLOWS: camps for women?


> Robert Chandler wrote:
>
>> Grossman is, for the main part uncommonly level-headed. But there is
>> one part of his chapter about women in the GULAG where his tone seems
>> hysterical:
>> ...
>
> Maybe I'm tone-deaf, but I don't see anything in your quotation that I 
> would describe as "hysterical," in either language. I might've taken a 
> different approach here and there, but the English doesn't come across to 
> me as more dramatic or flamboyant than the Russian.
>
>> WERE THERE REALLY STRICT-REGIME CAMPS WHERE MEN NEVER SET FOOT?  I
>> HAVE NOT SEEN THEM MENTIONED ELSEWHERE.
>
> Can't say, but there's no need to shout. Makes you sound hysterical.
>
> ;-)
>
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