Russian literature can be said to have influenced the trend of contemporary Chinese literature, and the works of many writers have had a deep impact on contemporary literature, among which the most profound influence is Tolstoy, Dostoevsky, Turgenev, Chekhov, Zolovov, etc. These writers and works have deeply influenced contemporary Chinese literature. These writers are also recognized by the world as great writers, and they have also written shocking masterpieces. I believe that most of the Chinese, that these writers, can be said to be very familiar with, from a young age began to contact their works, but among these people, there is a person who is said to have copied the works of others, he is the author of "Quiet Don", Sholokhov, there are rumors that his great work is copied from a draft of a White Army officer, so is this true?
Born on 24 May 1905 in the village of Kruzhlin in Donskoyjuntun, Wischensk Governorate, Sholokhov, whose full name was Mikhail Sholokhov, was sent to Moscow in 1914 and later returned to school in cossack villages. At the age of thirteen, during World War I, the German invasion of Ukraine interrupted his studies. Between 1919 and 1922, the young Sholokhov did various jobs for the Red Army, one of which was to collect military food in the Don region, while most Cossacks tried to resist the Bolshevik "expropriation and tyranny". In 1922, Sholokhov went to Moscow, joined the "Young Guards", and became a member of the young proletarian writers' organization. It was also at this time that he began to write literature, and during 1924 he published his essays in the official Russian newspaper , Youth Pravda , and from then on he took the path of literature. Also in the same year, he joined the Russian Writers' Association, became a full-time writer, and began his professional writing career.
It was also at that time that The Quiet Don was written, the first volume to be published, and the novel became so popular that it became an overnight success, and he was appreciated by Stalin and gave him a Stalin prize. It took a total of 14 years to complete the novel, and the whole volume became a great tome. Sholokhov also won the 1965 Nobel Prize in Literature for his novel, becoming the third writer in Russian history to receive the prize.
After Sholokhov won the Nobel Prize in Literature, people began to question him, believing that his tome was nothing more than a plagiarized work, and some people even came up with strong evidence that the work was first written by a white officer, and later because of Sholokhov's work, he obtained the draft, so he processed it and turned it into his work. One of the writers who questioned him the most, Solzhenitsyn, thought that Sholokhov simply did not have the ability to complete such a great work. Neither from his knowledge nor his insight could reach such a height, so for a moment, the matter was boiling over.
The most suspicious thing is that Sholokhov's other works except for this one work are not favored, especially his "Don River Story", which cannot be regarded as a novel at all, but can only be regarded as a sketch or sketch and the big stroke of "Quiet Don" is simply incomparable. Later, in order to cooperate with the collectivization of agriculture, he wrote "The Virgin Lands Reclaimed", and it was from that book that I first learned about Stalin's publication of "Victory In the Head" in Pravda. According to Sholokhov in his book, the Cossacks could not bear the tyranny of forced collectivization and were ready to revolt again, and it was only because of the publication of the article that they changed their minds and decided to support Stalin. However, people have always been skeptical about his works, but he himself has not stood up to explain, which makes this matter feel a little foggy.
In 1968, a lady in Ledinger wrote to the editorial board of New World magazine, saying that her brother was a White Army officer during the Civil War and had written stories about her combat experiences. In the early 1920s, her brother was arrested by the authorities. In prison, he feared that his efforts would be lost after death, so he told his fellow cellmates, who were a priest at the time, where he had hidden the manuscript. However, Blochov was the one who interrogated the priest, which made the matter even more confusing.
But now, although Sholokhov's draft has been found, people have always doubted this matter, after all, Sholokhov has difficulty writing such a work in any way. Except for this one work, his other works, which cannot be regarded as novels, are very poorly written. But for outsiders, we don't know the truth of the matter, and we don't dare to speculate. After all, such a great work, it is also a fortunate thing for those of us who like to read books to read such works.