I read Sholokhov's book's when very young and fairly innocent. I should reread him soon.
I was very moved by Nelly Sach's poems, on the Poetry Foundation site, but especially the poem in the text, "The Archive unfolded before me". I shall hunt for more of her poems and read them in memory of my lost family.
Sholokhov has been my great, personal literary find of the last half of my 60s. The Don books, including their extension to cover the chaotic period of forced collectivization and the consolidation of Stalin's rule, are amazing triumphs of the novelist's art. Reading them, it shocked me how realistically they portrayed the upheavals of war and revolution as they affected people of all sorts. I highly recommend you finish your reading.
Sholokhov's novels & short stories can be brutal in their violence, tender in their depiction of flawed humanity, unbending in their portrayal of an implacable fate. He was a master of the quick personality sketch, while also a poet of nature. The great canvas of Russia opens up to the reader like no other author since Tolstoy.
I read Sholokhov's book's when very young and fairly innocent. I should reread him soon.
I was very moved by Nelly Sach's poems, on the Poetry Foundation site, but especially the poem in the text, "The Archive unfolded before me". I shall hunt for more of her poems and read them in memory of my lost family.
Sholokhov has been my great, personal literary find of the last half of my 60s. The Don books, including their extension to cover the chaotic period of forced collectivization and the consolidation of Stalin's rule, are amazing triumphs of the novelist's art. Reading them, it shocked me how realistically they portrayed the upheavals of war and revolution as they affected people of all sorts. I highly recommend you finish your reading.
Sholokhov's novels & short stories can be brutal in their violence, tender in their depiction of flawed humanity, unbending in their portrayal of an implacable fate. He was a master of the quick personality sketch, while also a poet of nature. The great canvas of Russia opens up to the reader like no other author since Tolstoy.