And Quiet Flows the Don (v. 1)
by Mikhail Aleksandrovich Sholokhov
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Author: Mikhail Aleksandrovich SholokhovEdition: Paperback
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 2001-06-01
ISBN: 1589633121
Number of pages: 648
Publisher: Fredonia Books (NL)
Book Reviews of And Quiet Flows the Don (v. 1)
Book Review: The Novel that is Life-Life inside a Novel!
Summary: 5 Stars
I am very surprised to see that there are not more reviews of this book. Either it shows that people are too drawn to this magnificent work to leave behind the world Sholokhov created, even for a moment to type, or that not too many people are reading this life changing novel because they are not aware of it. I am very reticent on writing reviews, since I do not find my pen to be adequate enough to motivate fellow Amazonians to give my tastes a chance. Anyhow, since I am so spell bounded by Sholokhov's world, I could not any longer sit in the shadow and silence my voice.
I am still reading "And Quiet Flows the Don" and momentarily I am on Volume 3 of this epic tale (and it cannot get any bigger than this, well maybe Tolstoy, but even the "Silent Don" is a different caliber than good old "War and Peace"). I am sure the translator of "And Quiet Flows the Don" must have spent years performing the task of translation. The sheer amount of detailed description evokes such intense emotions and vividness that the reader cannot but live in the world Sholokhov created. The best way to put it in simple terms is that "one is there, or rather the Don is here." How much love, meticulous care and tenderness went into developing, writing and presenting the story of the Don Cossacks in the midst of the First World War, the Russian Revolution and then the Civil War is incomparable to any work I have encountered. Though, while I have to state that Mann is my favorite novelist, "And Quiet Flows the Don" has to be my favorite novel (so far). Do not be fooled by those who say that this is Communistic propaganda. Serious minded ironists always masked themselves in order to raise sensations and satire of the dominant discourse.
Sholokhov's epic is bar none the best narrative I have come across, period. Granted, there are many avid readers who adhere to peculiar authors and works, who will from the first get-go choose to disagree with me on my praise of Sholokhov, I am only exuding my affections and gratitude to Sholokhov for having offered the world an absolute beautiful tale of life. This is Realism at its best. Sure, we can all debate whether an author can depict reality objectively, or purely from a perceived account; but still this does not suffice for me to avoid the Silent Don tale. Anyone who has come across "And Quiet Flows the Don" is doing him/herself a disservice and disfavor by not reading it.
Summary of And Quiet Flows the Don (v. 1)
This is volume 1 of a five volume set.Sholokhov's book introduces the reader to a New World that is not merely the Don Region, but the world of the author's inimitably poetic prose; giving fifteen years of his life to the creation of And Quiet Flows the Don. He began the first book at the age of twenty, in 1926. The last was finished in 1940. While Leo Tolstoy?s novel War and Peace (1863-69) immortalized the Napoleonic campaigns to the eve of the Decembrist revolt, And Quiet Flows the Don showed the destruction of the Cossacks and the birth of a new society.
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