Zakhar Prilepin’s novel The Мonastery (Obitel’, 2014) combines traits of the novel ofdevelopment (Bildungsroman), camp prose (lagernaia proza), and other genres to depict thelife of Artem Goriainov, a prisoner in the Solovki Islands labor camp in the late 1920s. TheMonastery purports to be based on the reminiscences of the author’s great-grandfather, yet thenarrative’s subtle structure and references to artistry reveal that the author’s representation ofmaterial is more important than the factual recording of events.
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