Problems In The Literary Biography Of Mikhail Sholokhov
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Few literary controversies in the twentieth century are as charged and consequential as the question of authorship surrounding Mikhail Sholokhov's And Quiet Flows the Don — a Nobel Prize-winning epic of the Russian Civil War that some have argued its credited author could not have written. Roy A. Medvedev, one of the Soviet Union's most courageous dissident historians, presents a rigorous and meticulously researched examination of the contradictions, gaps, and allegations that shadow Sholokhov's literary biography, translated into English by A. D. P. Briggs for a wider audience. Drawing on Soviet archival sources and a historian's unflinching critical eye, Medvedev argues that the inconsistencies in Sholokhov's life and work demand serious scholarly scrutiny, challenging the official Soviet literary establishment's carefully constructed narrative. Published by Cambridge University Press, this work stands as a landmark in both Russian literary studies and the broader history of intellectual dissent under Soviet rule — a text that asks not merely who wrote a masterpiece, but what it means when a state has a vested interest in the answer.
Author: Roy A. Medvedev
Format: Hardback
Published: 1977, Cambridge University Press
Genre: Biography
Condition remarks:
Condition: Good. Jacket: Worn/faded - no tears. Page Condition: Good, some tanning. Markings: none. Binding condition: Good.
Few literary controversies in the twentieth century are as charged and consequential as the question of authorship surrounding Mikhail Sholokhov's And Quiet Flows the Don — a Nobel Prize-winning epic of the Russian Civil War that some have argued its credited author could not have written. Roy A. Medvedev, one of the Soviet Union's most courageous dissident historians, presents a rigorous and meticulously researched examination of the contradictions, gaps, and allegations that shadow Sholokhov's literary biography, translated into English by A. D. P. Briggs for a wider audience. Drawing on Soviet archival sources and a historian's unflinching critical eye, Medvedev argues that the inconsistencies in Sholokhov's life and work demand serious scholarly scrutiny, challenging the official Soviet literary establishment's carefully constructed narrative. Published by Cambridge University Press, this work stands as a landmark in both Russian literary studies and the broader history of intellectual dissent under Soviet rule — a text that asks not merely who wrote a masterpiece, but what it means when a state has a vested interest in the answer.