Chapter 62 Sholokhov and "The Quiet Flows the Don"

Sholokhov and Sholokhov's long masterpiece This novel itself is long enough, the Chinese translation has The four thick books, and the color film solemnly shot according to the original book, are also amazingly long. It takes six hours to finish reading it, but it is much faster than finishing this novel. "quiet The Quiet River Don is a novel with strong local color and full of local flavor. Compared with Tolstoy's, Romain Rolland's "John Christopher", but The scope of the story is much smaller, which is the characteristic of this novel and its success.Sholokhov since

He is a native of the Don River Basin, so he describes the stories of his hometown, what he has seen and heard personally, and naturally writes vividly. It has color and flesh and blood, so it becomes the real first Soviet literary work.Until today, Xiao Luohuo Husband still lives on the banks of the Don.I once translated an interview with Sholokhov written by a foreign writer, saying His writing room is on a small building in a manor beside the Don River, and he can enjoy the scenery of the Don River from the window color.He often writes late at night with the windows and doors open.Peasants on the Don River Looking at Sholokhov's Window Lights from afar

The lights stayed on, and they nodded and smiled at each other, knowing that the writer they were so proud of was working there again. Sholokhov not only wrote, he also wrote about how the Don roared into anger, That was during the Great Patriotic War of the Soviet Union, when the peasants of the Don River resisted the crazy attack of Hitler and the Finnish White Army matter.Sholokhov published many short reports in a row under the title "The Raging Don". Like the "Stories of the Don River" I wrote before I was about to write, the stories about the Don River How the old Cossacks and the younger generation bravely resisted the attacks of foreign invaders and defended their hometown.

situation. One issue of the Soviet "Alligator Illustrated" used Sholokhov's reports as the subject matter and drew a As the cover, a cartoon depicting a Cossack riding a horse, brandishing a saber at a mired The Nazi invaders cut it off, and the title is "The Quiet Don Floods the Danube". I translated two of Sholokhov's vivid reports at the time and published them in a on publications.This was nearly twenty years ago.I watched a video recently and thought Find those old works again to have a look, but unfortunately I can't find them anymore. Sholokhov was born in 1905 and is fifty-four years old this year (1959).

He started writing this great work in 1926, when he was still a young writer, but in A collection of short stories "Tales of the Don" had already been published the previous year, followed by another Another collection of stories, The Blue Prairie. The first volume was completed in 1928.Then he wrote three more volumes, spending a total of It took fourteen years.Therefore, he who started writing this work at the age of 21, waited until it was all written, Already thirty-five years old.During this period, between 1932 and 1933, he also completed another A novel, that is "The Reclaimed Virgin Land", which is also popular today.it's about brother

The life of the peasants in Sark, describing the overcoming of those ancient peasants in order to participate in collective farm life difficulties and struggles.This novel has become a favorite of Soviet workers working on collective farms. Classics. The completion of the book not only established Sholokhov's status as a writer, but also made the world People are impressed by the socialist realism Soviet literary works, because this great work cannot be used measured by the standards of Western literary criticism.It is Gorky's "Klim Samkin" compared with it come, it will not be inferior, because only from the new land of the Soviets, sprouting

New literary works that have taken root. In the Soviet Union, it has long been changed into a song and dance drama, which was adapted by Ivan Dessinsky. It was edited and filmed again and again, first in black and white and then in color. Sholokhov's mother died in a Nazi bomb during Hitler's rampant attack in 1942 Down.She was also a Cossack peasant, and she was illiterate at first, but she began to learn to communicate with her son. Learn to read and write.So Sholokhov felt very sad about her death.