A good book will bring you a kind of inner shock, a feeling of life, a sense of the world and the aftertaste of countless no-man's cheeks. Some can even bring you a new understanding of the world, a new perspective on life. A person's life can completely and completely understand a good book, which is really a kind of cultivation fate. And the biggest influence on people in this regard is those world famous books.
However, it is one thing to read famous works, but it is quite another to be able to read famous books. The same was true of me back then. Influenced by his mother, he loved to read since he was a child, but to be honest, there was only one feeling when reading famous books, that is, obscure. Most of the time it's a spree. It was completely by virtue of a love of reading and the supervision of parents. And by the time you can really read it, it is already a matter of years and sideburns.
Due to the historical reasons of Sino-Soviet friendship in that year, under the influence of my mother's collection of books, the most read of them was Russian literature. I still remember that the first work of Russian literature that had a real impact on me was the book "Here the Dawn Is Quiet."
When I read this book when I was young, I was more attracted to those exciting battle scenes, and when I had a certain experience, I really deeply realized the great humanistic feelings behind the moving stories in the novel, and from that moment on, my feelings about Soviet literature changed greatly, and then I read some of the pinnacle works of Soviet literature: such as "War and Peace" and "Quiet Don", and after reading it, I changed my impression of the Russian nation.
The Russian nation, many people today think of it as a barbaric, selfish people who only know how to conquer and expand, but if you really have a deep understanding of Russian culture, you may change these views. My personal opinion today is that although this nation is tough, it knows how to reflect on itself and does not lack rationality. Although this nation is brave and courageous, its cultural heritage is very deep.
Hegel once said: Existence is reasonable, we want to embark on the road of real strength and self-confidence, we should see the advantages of other nationalities and absorb them, the strength and prestige of the Tang Dynasty was built on its broad and ambitious mind. Sooner or later, a rational and inclusive nation will shine, and so should we today.
And as for the Russian nation, if you look at these masterpieces, you will believe that this nation can become the first great power on the planet, and has played an indispensable role in the world for centuries, indeed not only by its military factors, but also by its cultural heritage in the process of conquest and assimilation.
Today's Russia, due to various factors, its artistic and cultural glory is no longer brilliant, but we can not deny its once glorious existence in the world, and some even to this day are insurmountable peaks. For example, in its history, there are Pushkin, Gogol, Tolstoy..., in music, there are Tchaikovsky, Shostakovich..., in painting there are Repin, Kramskoy... I believe that these people can call out a name at random, and today they are all people who can only look up to them. In particular, the greatest influence on the world is its literary aspect.
Statue of the protagonist of "Quiet Don"
Perhaps because of everyone's personality and life experience, everyone has a classic in their minds that they think cannot be surpassed. In my mind, over the years, in these Works of Russian Literature, the one that has touched me the most and that I cannot forget is this Book of Sholokhov's "Quiet Don River".
The book alone has 1.5 million words in Chinese translation, a total of four parts, and it took Sholokhov a total of 14 years to complete, and what is even more amazing is that the author was only 23 years old when the first part was completed. Immediately after its publication, it caused a sensation, and Stalin himself personally received Sholokhov, praised him greatly, and won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1965.
Today, in the minds of countless people, this is indeed an insurmountable classic, not only because of its excellent language, complex character, portrayal of the character's feelings, and inner fluctuations. , especially in the description of the emotional twists and turns between the protagonist and the two heroines, people are unconsciously brought into it and immersed in the scene.
And the structure and connotation of the novel are also very outstanding, not only truly and profoundly reflecting the cruelty of the social reality of that year, reaching the depth of the people's hearts, but also embodying the helpless fate of the little people who are wrapped up and coerced under the torrent of the big era, which not only leaves you with endless sighs after reading, but also brings you endless deep thinking.
Someone once commented that "Quiet Don" is a super-first-class literary masterpiece comparable to "Les Misérables", and their difference is that the former is about Cossacks and the latter is about the whole world. It is said that Mr. Lu Xun was amazed when he read the first part of the novel, and some people once said that such a book with a reactionary character as the protagonist could pass the censorship at that time only because of the talent of the novel that completely conquered Stalin. And we can also see that the book can be recognized and awarded in the society of the Soviet Union and the West at that time, two societies with completely opposed ideologies, which shows the value of this book.
After the publication of the book, the sensational effect caused even made many people suspect that the book was copied by Sholokhov, because such a magnificent structure, broad picture, and profound epic-level general work, the overall momentum of the majestic, the sense of history should not be such a young man who is only 23 years old and has no life experience can write.
Later, the book was made into a movie, which also caused a sensation in that year, and today, I believe that countless people like books and some like movies! Many people like movies because they think that they can read the original works in Russian to really feel the real artistic charm of the book, and the translation is often worse, and the literary expression is often lost in the thousands of miles!
For example, the Russian language of "Quiet Don" is Тихий Дон, which is literally translated into English as quiet Don or silver Don, and its English title is translated as "And Quiet Flows the Don". Many people have even misread it as: the Quiet River of Dunton. In Russian, word order is not too strict, but friends familiar with Russian should understand.
In the original work, Sholokhov's mastery of scenery and plot development is also very skilled, and the book's passages about scenery descriptions abound. Many translations are inevitably a bit unsatisfactory. Of course, many of the translations of this book are also quite outstanding. The reason for this is that there are many good Russians among the older generation in China, so we can see a lot of good Russian translations. This is also one of the reasons why many people like books.
Let's take a brief look at the book:
The four-volume book of "Quiet Don" describes the life of the Cossacks in the Don River Basin under the torrent of the Great Era from 1910 to 1920, involving a series of major events that affected the course of Russian history, such as the First World War, the October Revolution of the Soviet Union and the Russian Civil War.
The name "Quiet Don" has a very far-reaching meaning, the southern part of Russia belongs to the Russian steppe geographically, the terrain is relatively flat, and the Don River becomes slow and calm here. Although it is silent, it is firmly wrapped in everything and slowly moves forward, which is like the long history of human society!
The story is based on a Cossack family named Melekhov on the banks of the Don River in the early twentieth century. Sholokhov first began to write from procofi in his grandfather's generation. Prokofi fought as a Russian Cossack soldier in the Russian-Turkish war of 1877-1878.
When he returned to the village after the war, he brought back a captured Turkish woman as his wife. Coming from an enemy country, the woman lived in a low-key and discreet manner in an environment hostile and unfamiliar to the villagers. But the savage and ignorant villagers still did not let her go. After a plague outbreak in the village's livestock, they believed that the woman was a witch and that she had brought disaster to them.
So when the villagers attacked Prokofi's house, the Turkish woman was beaten to death. An enraged Prokofi broke free from the crowd, went back to his house and drew his saber, slashing one of the fiercest villagers in half and sentencing him to 12 years in prison. The only child in this tragedy who was fortunate to be pregnant with his wife, Pantelae, was prematurely born and survived before her death.
Tartar village
Phan Trai grew up marrying a neighboring Cossack woman. Like his father and many Cossacks in the village, Pentelae joined the Russian army and rose to the rank of sergeant. But then he broke his leg during a review and became a cripple after retiring from the army. Pantherley's wife bore him three children, the eldest son Pietro, the second son Gregory and daughter Tonya. Because Phan Tessley is of Turkish descent, the villagers gave their family the nickname "Turks".
After writing this, Sholokhov began to focus his pen and ink on the protagonist of the story, Gregory, the second son of Pantelle. Gregory, who was as bohemian and daring to love and hate like his grandfather, fell in love with Aknesia, the married woman of the village, and became intimate. Pantelle thought that his son's behavior was very offensive, and in order to win his son's heart, he married Gregory a wife, Natalie.
This is one of the most sympathetic heroines in the story, Natalie is beautiful and well-mannered, typical of a traditional wife, but not the type that Gregory likes, who craves passion, preferring the wild, bold, passionate Aknesia. Finally kicked out of the house after an argument with his father, Gregory and Aknesia both ran away from home to work as servants at the home of a retired Cossack general a few miles away. Aknesia was also pregnant with Gregory's child.
Natalie and Aksinya
Natalie, who is also a soft and introverted woman, is very humiliated by Gregory's escape, angrily committed suicide with a sickle and was saved, but her neck has since been crooked, leaving her with a lifelong disability...
Cossack men, who rode horses and wielded sabers skillfully, were rare and excellent warriors, and at that time the Russian army had more than ten Cossack cavalry regiments, numbering about ten thousand people. The Cossacks have always served the Tsar for generations, are brave and good at war, and are an important military force in the Tsarist army. When these Cossack soldiers joined the army, each of them would bring a handful of dirt from their hometown to show their nostalgia for their hometown.
Subsequently, during the Great War, Gregory was also drafted into the military and fought in World War I. His cavalry regiment was sent to the Austrian front to fight the Austro-Hungarian Empire. During the war he began to learn to kill for the first time, and from the moment he first stabbed a spear into the chest of an Austrian soldier, Gregory gradually transformed from his initial trepidation into a murderous weapon.
After Gregory left, Aknesia gave birth to a girl. But soon he died of diphtheria. Alone and helpless, Aknesia could not resist the temptation to live with the general's son. Betrayed Gregory. At the same time, Gregory was slashed and passed out by a Hungarian soldier during a battle. His troops thought Gregory was dead and informed his family.
When Pan Telaide got the news, he was sad and burst into tears. However, more than ten days later, Pantilai received a letter from his eldest son, who was also serving in the army, and Gregory did not die, and he woke up and was awarded the George Cross medal of the Russian Army for saving an injured lieutenant colonel. Pan Telay turned from sad to happy, and when he met people in the village, he told him about his son's award.
Gregory also gained unprecedented respect when he returned home for a vacation. But he also learned of Aknesia's betrayal, and after beating his lover to vent, he left Aknesia despite her bitter pleas and returned to his wife Natalie, and at this moment, he truly accepted Nataliya in his heart, and Natalie later gave birth to twins for him.
Gregory's homecoming scene
After the October Revolution in Russia in 1917, some soldiers who served in the Russian army returned to the village, but Gregory did not return, he was influenced by the red ideas and joined the Soviet Red Army. However, in one battle, he witnessed the Red Army shooting all the captured Cossack White Army officers unconditionally, and witnessed the tragic death of his compatriots, but Gregory was powerless, which made Gregory very disappointed and angry with the Red Army. He then took advantage of his leg wound to break away from the Red Army and join the White Army.
However, the White Army was the same, and it was also ruthless toward the Red Army, hanging all the captured Red Army leaders in front of the common people. The turbulent situation has driven both sides crazy, loved ones have become enemies, and life has not received any respect in the face of these hatreds. This wave has also enveloped countless ordinary people in this land. Throughout the Russian Civil War, the Cossacks of the Don Valley were divided into forces that supported Soviet power, opposed Soviet power, and demanded independence.
In this great vendetta, young and strong men are wrapped up in war and vendetta, and only women, old people and children are left in the village. Vast tracts of land are barren, life is extremely difficult for the people, and many people are confused about the future, and Gregory is no exception.
In Gregory's home, tragedies followed. The fierce Natalier was discouraged to see him and Aknesia rekindled, unwilling to give him a third child, and forcibly miscarried himself. His brother was also killed by his sister's boyfriend, Cossay, a Cossack who had joined the Red Army. His sister-in-law committed suicide because she was completely tired of life and threw herself into the water.
His parents subsequently died. At this time, Gregory was completely tired of this kind of killing of his own people, and only wanted to go home and farm a quiet life, but the Red Army was still not ready to let him go. One night after Gregory's return, his sister Tonya learned from Cossay Voy, who had become the chairman of the Soviet village, that they were going to capture Gregory, and quickly secretly told Gregory the news.
Gregory had no choice but to entrust his two children to Tonya and flee with Aknesia overnight. But on the way out, they were found by the grain conscription soldiers, who were shot and killed in Aknesia during the pursuit. Gregory's last hope in life was completely shattered, and after burying Aknesia, his heart was like ashes, and he was no longer willing to live this wandering life, ready to resign himself to fate. Eventually he threw his rifle into the Don River, crossed the quiet Don River, and returned to the place where his ancestors had lived. This concludes the book.
The archetypal character of Sholokhov's book is an old Cossack whose basic experience is very similar to that of the novel, but in the end he is exiled to Siberia and eventually dies there in poverty and illness.
This tome is the work of Sholokhov's life, and it is also the pinnacle of his life. In this great work, it not only depicts a magnificent picture under the torrent of the great era, but also makes us feel that it truly reflects the human nature of the world, and the complexity of human nature is vividly expressed in this book.
This book profoundly reflects the sadness of small people in the big era. In turbulent times, small people can only be wrapped up and walked, unable to escape the torrent of the big times. In the raging tide of the times, the traditional Cossack society was shattered and torn apart, and the Cossack civilization disappeared. It is completely impossible for anyone to live in peace in a chaotic world. It is impossible for people to stand in the middle, but which side to choose is full of entanglements, full of helplessness and sadness.
In this great work, the descriptions in all aspects are wonderful and the writing is very beautiful. The description of the scene can make you see the vast black soil plain of the Don River, the purple smoke of early spring, and the fragrant hay. In this land, the cruel years have gradually transformed Gregory from a young, reckless youth into a weathered Cossack, from a reckless and impulsive hairy boy who is passionate about war to a middle-aged man who is tired of war and only wants to return to his hometown and embrace his family.
His love affair with Aghelia may have been a simple male-female love at first, but in the end it became a flesh-and-blood fusion of life and death. Natalie is the most tragic heroine, and countless people may begin to hate and hate him for his indifference to Natalie, but in the end they can only sigh and understand the arrangement of this fate after reading it, because if he pities Natalie, he will go against his nature, and he will suffer. But in short, fate is fair, and how much joy he and Aknesia have gained, how much hardship and pain they have tasted in life.
Perhaps, in their hearts, how much suffering for love is worth it, not only is Aknesia's voice, but Gregory also thinks so, but neither of them has escaped the ruthless arrangement of fate in the end.
Throughout the story, the characters' personalities are portrayed in a very real and believable way. The protagonists' personalities are complex, especially emotional, and the relationship is chaotic, but reasonable. For example, the heroine Aknesia dares to love and dare to hate, but she is not dedicated, extremely fierce and spicy when quarrelling, but her heart is very kind. When Gregory fled, she raised two children born to her enemy Natalie.
Gregory's sister-in-law, Dalia, was dark and mean and vicious, and it was she who deliberately revealed Gregory's adulterous affair with Aknesia, which eventually led to Natalie's suicide, and it was she who killed relatives who joined the Red Army in public, causing a great split in the village. But she still had a sense of moral guilt in her heart, and finally Shen Jiang committed suicide to apologize.
In terms of the complexity of the characters, the author uses superb brushwork and nuanced descriptions to vividly describe them. Especially in the last paragraph of the novel, Gregory comes home to see his son's concise and meaningful dialogue. It is really emotional, so far I have never seen such a good domestic work.
Politically, it is even more dazzling. The Cossacks of the Don Valley, against the backdrop of that year, oscillated between the Red Army and the White Army. Under the coercion of the big times, even the relatives and friends in the village were stained with each other's blood. And the villagers are more like wall grass, the Red Army came to rob the white army's family's things, and the white army came to rob the Red Army's family, which fully reflected the sad human nature in the chaotic world. And most importantly, this book does not take sides. Just quietly narrating all this from an objective and calm height.
Today, the literary achievements of this tome are no longer in doubt. He has been classified as the pinnacle of Russian literature and has become immortal forever. Let's take a look at the creators of this great work: Sholokhov and the stories behind him.
Sholokhov
Sholokhov was born on May 24, 1905, in a village in southern Russia near the Don River called Krughelin. Historically known as the "Land of the Cossacks", the lower Don basin was a Cossack autonomous region during the Tsarist period and now belongs to the Rostov Oblast.
Sholokhov's family relationship is very complicated, Sholokhov's maternal grandmother comes from a Cossack family, so Sholokhov also has Cossack blood flowing from his body. Both were later killed, and his mother, Danielovna, became an orphan. When she was only 12 years old, she was forced to marry a Cossack chief of the village named Kuznetsov.
Denilovna gave birth to a baby girl after marriage, but died shortly after. But Denilovna did not like her rude Cossack husband, and after she later met Alexander Sholokhov, who was doing business in the village, Alexander Sholokhov was humorous and thoughtful, and Danilov fell in love with him and secretly gave birth to Sholokhov. We later see that the emotional relationship in Sholokhov's works is very confusing, perhaps from here to lay the groundwork.
Sholokhov in childhood
Sholokhov was born with the surname Kuznetsov because her mother did not divorce her husband at the time. But his mother's affair is well known throughout the village, and because of the improper way, the children in the village reject him, for which Sholokhov's childhood was subjected to countless discrimination, which may have made his understanding of human nature more profound, and it was also reflected in his later works.
In 1912, Kuznetsov died of illness, and Sholokhov's mother was finally able to marry his biological father, and Sholokhov changed his surname. Sholokhov's father, Alexander Sholokhov, was from Ryazan Oblast and was in the grain business. Therefore, their family should still be relatively rich in the village.
Sholokhov's birthplace
Sholokhov entered a church school in 1912 and completed his studies in 1918. During this time his talent for writing began to emerge, and in 1922 Sholokhov came to Moscow, hoping to become a journalist. It was at this time that he began to write some short essays. He has also participated in a number of writers' colloquiums.
But for a fledgling hairy boy, the road to fame is still very difficult and long. During this period, in order to maintain his life, he even had to work some short-term jobs, but the advantage was that he also accumulated more life experience, and he never gave up on writing.
At that time, it was also reported that when Sholokhov was 17 years old, that is, before coming to Moscow, he had worked as a village tax collector and was sentenced to death on suspicion of corruption. Later, his father used his relationship to change his age to 15 and become a minor, so that Sholokhov not only escaped death, but also did not sit in prison. However, the authenticity of this story cannot be verified.
Sholokhov family photo in 1941
In 1924, Sholokhov, who could not continue in Moscow, returned to his hometown and concentrated on writing. In the same year, Sholokhov married Maria Gromoslavskaya. Maria's father was also the Cossack chief of a village in volgograd Oblast. Together, they had two sons and two daughters.
After the family began to stabilize, the genius finally began to shine, and in 1924 the Soviet newspaper Youth Pravda first published Sholokhov's short story "Birthmark". In 1926 Sholokhov published a collection of short stories based on his childhood experiences, "The Light Blue Wilderness." Start to get noticed.
At the same time, Sholokhov also began to write "The Quiet Don". In 1928, the Soviet magazine October began to publish the first volume of his novel in installments. Immediately, there was a huge reaction, and Sholokhov spent a total of 14 years, until 1940, when he completed his monumental work.
Sholokhov is writing
Sholokhov was 23 years old when the first volume of The Quiet Don was published, and his Quiet Don is considered another Russian epic after Tolstoy's War and Peace. Winner of the Stalin Prize in 1941 and the Lenin Prize in 1960, Quiet Don is one of the most beloved works in the former Soviet Union.
As a result, Sholokhov was twice awarded the Order of the Hero of Socialist Labour and the Order of Lenin six times. Sholokhov is widely known around the world today for winning the 1965 Nobel Prize in Literature. The Quiet Don has been adapted into several films and television series in Russia, the earliest being a 1930 and 1957 film, followed by a 7-episode television series in 2006 and a 14-episode TELEVISION series in 2015.
During World War II, after the German invasion of the Soviet Union, Sholokhov also served as a war correspondent for the Red Star newspaper of the Soviet Red Army and the Pravda of the Central Committee of the CPSU, and even personally went to the most dangerous and arduous fronts of Stalingrad, Belarus and other fronts.
Photo of Sholokhov in military uniform
After Sholokhov became famous, he held positions in the Soviet government and the CPSU: member of the Central Committee of the CPSU, vice-chairman of the Writers' Association of the USSR and member of the USSR Academy of Sciences. In 1969, Sholokhov also accompanied Soviet leader Khrushchev on a tour of Europe and the United States as a member of the delegation.
At the same time, Sholokhov was the only person who was approved by the Soviet government to receive the Nobel Prize abroad. In 1958, soviet writer Boris Pasternak won the Nobel Prize in Literature for his work Doctor Zhivago. Because his work was banned in the Soviet Union, the Soviet government informed Pasternak that if he dared to go to Sweden to receive the award, he would be banned from returning to the Soviet Union. Another Solzhenitsyn who won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1970 for The Day of Ivan Denisovich was also unable to accept the prize for this reason.
At the Nobel Prize Ceremony in Stockholm, Sweden, in 1965, the King of Sweden personally presented the prize to Sholokhov. According to etiquette he should bow his head, but Sholokhov still raised his head and chest. Some say it was arranged by the Soviet government at the time, but others say it was because the Cossacks never bowed to outsiders.
Sholokhov at the 1965 Nobel Prize ceremony in Stockholm, Sweden
After 1969, Sholokhov returned to his birthplace. He used the Prize he won to build a local school and used the Nobel Prize to take his family on a tour of Europe and Japan. On February 21, 1984, this great genius finally left us, and Sholokhov died of throat cancer.
Today, the literary status of "Quiet Don" is no longer doubted, but such a great work, after its advent, still experienced a lot of criticism and ups and downs, let's take a look at the controversy caused by this huge work and the story behind it.
Because The Quiet Don was so excellent, and Sholokhov's first volume was completed so young, it immediately aroused the suspicion that he could not have written such a magnificent and nuanced realist novel reflecting the life of the Cossacks at his age, and that it was a copy of the work of a dead Cossack White Army officer.
Due to the great success of the work, the social repercussions were so great that in 1929 Stalin specially instructed the establishment of an investigation team to investigate the matter. The investigation team did a great deal of work, including the use of modern linguistic research methods, and finally after seeing Sholokhov's manuscript, after careful screening, it was finally confirmed that "The Quiet Don" was indeed written by himself. Returned a innocence of this genius.
A manuscript of Sholokhov's The Quiet Don
But then another big controversy ensued, and after the novel was published, some people came forward to criticize the book for not praising the Bolsheviks enough. In this magnificent work, neither the Red Army nor the rebellious Cossacks are glorified. The point is that the praise of the Soviet government of the time has not yet been expressed. It is a work of great indistinct position, and it is said that even Stalin thought that there were many problems in the book, but he did not block the book and personally received Sholokhov.
This is because in addition to Stalin himself having a certain literary appreciation ability and admiring Sholokhov's talent, there is another important reason.
That is to say, Stalin was no stranger to the Cossack nation. During the Russian Civil War, from July 1918 to January 1920, the Soviet Red Army under stalin fought a year-long defensive battle at Tsarits (present-day Volgograd) against the White Cossack Army led by Krasnov. In the process, Stalin had a very deep understanding of the Cossack cavalry, and at the same time greatly appreciated the bravery and good fighting of these soldiers.
Cossack cavalry
In the history of mankind, the strong can only appreciate the strong, and Stalin, after witnessing how those Cossack warriors were not afraid of death, how brave and fearless, I believe that he also left the mark in his heart that this is a nation that deserves to be respected. At the same time, it was also his blessed land, after defeating his opponents in a hard battle, Stalin further accumulated and laid the capital and position he later established in the Soviet leadership, and Tsaritsyn was later renamed Stalingrad.
The first edition of this book was published in 1930 and completed in 1940, entirely in the Stalin era, and the last volume was at the peak of the Great Purge, and the books published during that period, such as "How Steel is Made", which were popular throughout the Soviet Union, also objectively and truly reflected many of the cruel realities of Soviet society at that time. These novels that profoundly exposed reality were able to be published, and we can see that stalin must have been demonized too much in the course of later history.
Historical figures are always the most complex, and today, when we quietly appreciate this great work, we should also see that behind Sholokhov's greatness, Stalin also has its praiseworthy place.
The elderly Sholokhov was on the banks of the Don River
There is an old Chinese saying that wood shows in the forest, and the wind will destroy it. Even to this day, more than half a century after the publication of this great work, the debate over it has never stopped. First of all, about the attributes of the writer and the work, what is the nature of the work to which the book belongs? When this was affirmed, some people began to argue about the class representation of the protagonist of the novel, Gregory. After these were identified, they began to argue about the tragic causes of the whole story. Since the advent of the entire "Quiet Don", it has been a constant topic of conversation.
However, we know that in human history, great things are the most easily noticed and lead to countless controversies, and from these aspects, they also fully prove the greatness of this work.
Let us conclude with the words awarded to Sholokhov by the Nobel Prize Committee in 1965: because of his epic works depicting the Don, with the strength and integrity of the artist, he showed the historically significant face of the life of the Russian people, which has a profound and far-reaching significance for the record of the times and the embodiment of human nature...
The impact of "Quiet Don" on us
In recent years, in China, Chen Zhongzhong's "White Deer Plain" has attracted countless people's love and pursuit, some people have commented that White Deer Plain is China's "Quiet Don River", we can also see the countless shadows of "Quiet Don River" from "White Deer Plain", Mr. Chen Zhongzhong admitted that this book had a great influence on the creation of "White Deer Plain".
We can carefully compare that the background and theme of the White Deer Plain are indeed very similar to "Don River", all of which are the helplessness of small people being wrapped up in the changes of the times, and all of them profoundly reflect the human nature in the turbulent situation, as well as the tragedy caused to many people under the torrent of history. The family as the main line shows the suffering of a nation.
The character design is also very similar to "Don River", such as Heiwa's character and fate is Gregory in "Don River", while Tian Xiao'e is like Aknesia, and Leng Qiuyue is like Natalie. In the whole "Don", Natalie's encounter is the most self-condemning for men, so the duty, beauty, love of husband and family of women, no fault, her fate is so tragic. The most sympathetic and depressing thing in don is Natalie, and Leng Qiuyue's fate is so similar.
In these great works, we can not see nobility and ugliness, nor can we see any criticism and accusation, in the writer's quiet narrative, under this great change of times, all filled with those true and naked human nature. Maybe destroy the most beautiful things, this is the power of the writer's words! Let us, the world, shake and throbb!
It should also be said that among us excellent writers, "Quiet Don River" has influenced countless people, such as not only Chen Zhongzhong, but also Mo Yan, and we can often see the shadow of "Don River" in Mo Yan's "Fat Buttocks". The rolling ruthlessness under the tide of history and the helplessness of the little people in this endless river are fully revealed.
However, I have always believed that whether it is "White Deer Plain" or "Fat Buttocks with Abundant Milk", compared with "Quiet Don River", no matter from the momentum and conception of the big era, the meticulous psychological description of the characters, as well as the use of the language of the scenery and the profound refinement of the dialogue, it is still a bit worse. At the end of the article, there is a link to the work that I personally think is translated closest to the original work, and you can buy it for careful reading and comparison.
Sholokhov's cemetery in the town of Vyoshenska
Finally, for thousands of years, culture has always been the foundation of a nation that has been truly respected by the world, and although such a great work has not appeared for a long time in today's Russia, I believe that the unique literary and artistic heritage and aura of this nation are still there. Therefore, we believe that in time, this nation will once again become great in the halls of world art!!!
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