Sholokhov - The literary road is not smooth with the epic epic Don River calm

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Sholokhov's whole life is a journey of witnessing and experiencing the most important historical milestones, which indirectly constituted a genius mind, a broad vision and a generous heart, Kindness always sympathizes and respects working people or miserable lives.

Sholokhov's full name is Mikhail Aleksandrovich Sholokhov, born on May 11 in Kamenskaya, died in 1984. He attended high school in Moscow but was interrupted by the Russian Civil War, so he later joined the army when only only thirteen years old.

Sholokhov began composing at a young age, publishing his first work, the short story The Birthmark, at the age of nineteen. In 1922, after the civil war ended, the writer moved to Moscow with the desire to become a journalist.

The first time he was there, he had to earn a living by hard manual work while participating in short classes for young writers to practice his writing skills.

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Four years later, he wrote the first lines of the legendary epic novel The Quiet Don, a series of books revolving around the lives of the Cossacks that were written over a period of nearly fourteen years with a total of four volumes.

Sholokhov wrote The Quiet Don when he was twenty-one years old himself, it was thought that he was too young to write such rich works, but despite the public opinion, the writer ignored all, Without making excuses or blaming, he continued to complete the work of his lifetime.

Moreover, thanks to the support of veteran writers such as Maxim Gorky or the talented leader Stalin, the work was allowed to be printed and widely distributed, which made Sholokhov's name become one of the great greats. best representation of socialist realist literature.

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In 1925, the talented writer began composing another massive novel, The Waste Land, reflecting the collectivization of agriculture in the Russian countryside.

The series of novels took nearly thirty years to complete two volumes, and the wasteland was awarded the Lenin Prize, the highest award for literature and art in the Soviet Union.

The writer's life is associated with the ups and downs of the country

When World War II broke out, like many other writers, Sholokhov took a break from writing peacetime works to write about war topics and boost the morale of Red Army soldiers.

Sholokhov wrote the novel They fought for the Fatherland, writing about the lives of Russian peasants who had to stand up to take up arms to defend their country, the first volume of the book series was born during the war but unfortunately, The manuscript was later lost again, so the present work has only a few fragmentary chapters.

After peace was restored, Sholokhov continued to exploit many painful issues of that time when he published the work The Fate of a Man with the big question of whether humanity can overcome the trauma caused by communism. Fascist cause to build a peaceful life in the new era or not.

The fate of a person does not revolve around the bloody battlefield, but mainly writes about the heavy aftershocks left by the unjust war, along with the obsession with killing in each dream, the fear of forgotten in the new society.

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Sholokhov's whole life is a journey of witnessing and experiencing the most important historical milestones, which indirectly constituted a genius mind, a broad vision and a generous heart, Kindness always sympathizes and respects working people or miserable lives.

He hates war and is always ready to use his sharp pen to expose those dark corners, Sholokhov remembers from majestic natural scenes to images of smoke and fire destroying houses and land. , he accumulated them all and spread them out on the page in his own words.

In 1967, the writer was awarded the title Hero of Socialist Labor, Sholokhov died in Moscow on February 21 at the age of seventy-nine.

Sholokhov's majestic epic epic The Quiet Don

The Quiet Don is Sholokhov's greatest novel series, which won him the prestigious Nobel Prize for Literature, and has even been compared with Lev Tolstoy's War and Peace because expertise in many fields and vast amounts of knowledge from history used.

The work depicts the period from 1912 to 1922 on the banks of the East River in a riverside Cossack village and also fully depicts the ten-year life journey of the main character Gregori Melekhov.

Gregori Melekhov is the second child in a family of Cossack grandfathers, Turkish grandmothers, he initially fell in love with Aksinia, his neighbor's wife, but was prevented by relatives, who did not want this relationship. developed, so he dared to ask and marry Natalia for Gregori.

Unwilling, Gregori and Aksinia left the country together, causing Natalia to live in shame because of her new husband's abandonment, she committed suicide but did not die and lived on the other side of the East River.

After that, Gregori was forced to join the army to fight in World War I, when he returned from leave, he was heartbroken to find out because of the dire circumstances that his and Aksinia's first child had lost, she was having an affair with homeowner's son.

Gregori returned to Natalia and they had a pair of twins, but, Gregori still decided to go back to Aksinia again, making Natalia extremely desperate, she went to the healer to get rid of the two's blood and due to the loss of her blood. Too much blood, she's gone.

The next time, after experiencing many political events, Gregori Melekhov fled with the bandits, he wanted to take Aksinia to another place far away, but she was shot and killed on the way.

Gregori fell into error when he followed the White Guards, committing crimes against the people and the Fatherland, those days made him live in torment, lost and suffering because of the decision he made.

The midway between the currents of society has caused Gregori Melekhov not to find a right path for himself, not to find the meaning of life, and to cause the women attached to him to suffer a tragic end.

Gregori himself also fell into a dangerous situation when he carried the felony of betraying the government so that in the end, he had no one close to him. Song Dong is like a living witness to the unhappy Gregori life, tormented by loneliness, regret, and disgust with the inhumanity of war.

Gregori is a typical character for the middle peasant class who experienced many mistakes in political thought during the stormy years of history, he is an upright, passionate and brave man who loves his hometown but also his hometown. There are bad sides such as roughness, more or less cruelty, and private property.

In addition to the characters rich in realism, Sholokhov also brought into the peaceful East River the image of the beautiful homeland of Russia, many traditional customs are expressed in a vivid and fluent way.

The work with more than one hundred characters takes place over a period of ten years with a large space with rushing historical events, but is extremely closely linked by the writer.

The peaceful East River was adapted into a 1930 film of the same name and is considered one of the classics of Russian cinema. Two television series were also released in 1957 and 1992.

Finally, even though it is often compared with great war works such as War and Peace or For Whom the Bell Tolls, the peaceful Dong River still affirms its classic era value on the Internet. Russian literature in particular and world literature in general.

Looking at the fruits of his labor with literary works, Sholokhov is indeed a great man of human literature, he devoted his life to producing many classics and leaving behind countless Valuable lesson for the next generation.

Sholokhov participated in the great national defense of the Russians against the fascists and held many important leadership positions of the Party. He died on February 21, 1984 in his hometown. And to this day, Sholokhov is still considered one of the proudest figures of the birch country, every year in the house where he lived, the Solokhov Spring Festival is held as an activity. great culture, this activity has been maintained during the past twenty years.

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