Review by jotsna jari
❤️ And Quiet Flows the Don :
This is a novel in four volumes by Russian
writer Mikhail Sholokhov. The first three
volumes were written from 1925 to 1932
and published in the Soviet magazine
Oktyabr in 1928–1932, and the fourth
volume was finished in 1940.
Sholokhov began writing And Quiet Flows the Don which took him fourteen years to complete (1926–1940). It became the most-read work of Soviet historical fiction, and it earned him the 1941 State Stalin Prize It deals with the experiences of the Cossacks before and during World War I and the Russian Civil War.
The novel is considered one of the most
significant works of world and Russian
literature in the 20th century. It depicts the
lives and struggles of Don Cossacks
during the First World War,the Russain
Revolution, and Russain Civil War,In 1965,
Sholokhov was awarded the Nobel Prize
in Literature for this novel.
The book deals not only with the struggles
and suffering of the Cossacks but also the
landscape itself, which is vividly brought to
life. There are also many folk
songs referenced throughout the novel.
And Quiet Flows the Don & Mikhail
Sholokov’s opinion :
” I began the novel by describing the event of the Kornilov putsch in 1917. Then it became clear that this putsch, and more importantly, the role of the Cossacks in these events, would not be understood without a Cossack prehistory, and so I began with the description of the life of the Don Cossacks just before the beginning of World War I.”
The novel has been compared to War & Peace (1869), written by Leo Tolstoy, notably by Maxim Gorky. Like the Tolstoy novel, And Quiet Flows the Don is an epic picture of Russian life during a time of crisis and examines it through political, military, romantic, and civilian lenses.
Great Salute to…
MIKHAIL SHOLOKHOV
Wentworth Press (8 March 2019) Language- English, Hardcover- 660 pages ISBN-100530665832. ISBN-13978-0530665832 Kindle Edition. Hardcover. Paperback.
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