And Quiet Flows the Don (Penguin Modern Classics)
Mikhail Aleksandrovich Sholokhov
ドン川流域のコサック社会を舞台に、革命と内戦に揺れる時代のなかで、グリゴーリー・メレホフの人生と選択を描く大河小説。家族、愛、戦争、忠誠が交差し、歴史のうねりに翻弄される人々の姿が、長く深い余韻を残す。
作品情報
革命と内戦の時代を、コサックの家族とひとりの男の選択を通して描き切る。
ロシア南西部のドン川流域で生きるコサックたちの暮らしを軸に、戦争と革命の時代に揺れる家族の運命を描く。個人の感情と歴史の圧力が絡み合い、壮大さと細部の両方で読み手を引き込む古典的長編。
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読者は、歴史の大きな流れを家族の物語に落とし込むスケール感と、登場人物の選択ににじむ道徳的な曖昧さを高く評価している。量の多さゆえに重厚だが、そのぶん読み終えたときの印象が強いという受け止め方が目立つ。
書籍情報
- 出版社
- Penguin Press
- 発売日
- 2017-10-24
- ページ数
- 576ページ
- 言語
- 英語
- サイズ
- 12.9 x 2.4 x 19.7 cm
- ISBN-13
- 9780241284407
- ISBN-10
- 9780241284407
- 価格
- 2223 JPY
- カテゴリ
- 洋書/Literature & Fiction/Classics
'A wonderful, unsparing epic ... an intimate human story of loss and love' New Statesman, Books of the Year The epic novel of love, war and revolution from Mikhail Sholokhov, winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature An extraordinary Russian masterpiece, And Quiet Flows the Don follows the turbulent fortunes of the Cossack people through peace, war and revolution - among them the proud and rebellious Gregor Melekhov, who struggles to be with the woman he loves as his country is torn apart. Borne of Mikhail Sholokhov's own early life in the lands of the Cossacks by the river Don, it is a searing portrait of a nation swept up in conflict, with all the tragic choices it brings.
Mikhail Aleksandrovich Sholokhov (1905-1984) was born in Russia in the land of the Cossacks. During the Russian civil war he fought on the side of the revolutionaries, and in 1922 he moved to Moscow to become a journalist. In 1926, Sholokhov began writing And Quiet Flows the Don, and he published the first volume in 1928. Three more volumes followed with the last one published in 1940. In 1965 he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature "for the artistic power and integrity with which, in his epic of the Don, he has given expression to a historic phase in the life of the Russian people".
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An in-depth story of family and life as a cossack in Russia before, during and after WW1
I'm half way through and this tale us very engaging. Lots if characters w similar names yet I keep finding the story olli g me along. I e read a number of Russian authors to date - Turgenov and Tolstoy- this is definitely an equivalent to those two. As I read through, I do wonder how the original Russian version read and if the translation is helping or hindering... Great book - i had lost an old copy on a plane ride last year and had to get a new copy which I'm quite happy I did.
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Five Stars
This is the full version of the book.
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A Landmark In World Literature
This is one of the great books in world literature. When I read that some compared it to War and Peace I was somewhat skeptical. I'd heard about this novel back in college when I studied Russian history, and I thought since it was written during the Communist Era it would have been censured and turned into propaganda. But that is not the case. The novel tells the story of the Don Cossacks, from pre World War I, through the war, then into the Russian Revolution and the Civil War that followed. I would compare it with Dr. Zhivago in terms of the characters being pushed and pulled along by historical forces they can't control, and the choices they have to make. It is not an easy read but if you are willing to take the time, it is definitely worth it.
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A good book
Nothing much
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Ottimo servizio, ottimo libro
Ottimo
関連する文学賞
- ノーベル文学賞 第58回（1965年） ・Winner