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Mikhail Aleksandrovich Sholokhov (Russian: Михаил Александрович Шолохов, IPA: [ˈʂoləxəf]; [2] 24 May [O.S. 11 May] 1905 – 21 February 1984) was a Russian novelist and winner of the 1965 Nobel Prize in Literature.
2005, USA, Ballantine Books (ISBN 978-0345479358), March 2005, paperback 2021, Russian Federation, Азбука-Аттикус ( ISBN 978-5389197060 ), May 2021, hardback References
The Evangelist John, a miniature from the Ostromir Gospel, mid-11th century. Old East Slavic literature, [1] also known as Old Russian literature, [2] [3] is a collection of literary works of Rus' authors, which includes all the works of ancient Rus' theologians, historians, philosophers, translators, etc., and written in Old East Slavic.
1st page of the Novgorod Psalter of c. 1000, the oldest survived Slavic book.. Scholars typically use the term Old Russian literature, in addition to the terms medieval Russian literature and early modern Russian literature, [6] or pre-Petrian literature, [7] to refer to Russian literature until the reforms of Peter the Great, tying literary development to historical periodization.
Nabokov said of this novel: "Of all my Russian books, The Defense contains and diffuses the greatest 'warmth' – which may seem odd seeing how supremely abstract chess is supposed to be." He later described this novel as the "story of a chess player who was crushed by his genius". The book was also influenced by the Soviet film Chess Fever ...
It was the most successful book of its kind in the 19th and early 20th-century in Russia. [1] Molokhovets revised the book continually between 1861 and 1917, a period of time falling between the emancipation of the serfs and the Communist Revolution. The book was well known in Russian households during publication and for decades afterwards. [2]
The plot of the book revolves around a substance called "blue lard" that the clones of Russian writers produce when they write [1] which is then used to power a hidden reactor on the moon. [2] Some of the cloned Russian writers include Tolstoy , Dostoyevsky , Akhmatova , Chekhov and Nabokov . [ 2 ]
The novel was very successful, selling all 45,000 copies of the first edition in a single day. [2]It drew criticism from the authorities for mentioning the Great Purge and other negative aspects of Stalinism; in late 1954 the Second Congress of Soviet Writers harshly criticized it, along with Vera Panova's novel The Seasons and Leonid Zorin's play Guests.