About the author:
Pyotr V. Paliyevsky (1932–2019), DSc in Philology, Professor, Director of Research, А.M. Gorky Institute of World Literature of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Povarskaya 25 a, 121069 Moscow, Russia.
Abstract:
The article deals with the role and place of the novel M.A. Sholokhov’s And Quiet Flows the Don in the context of Russian and world literature of the twentieth century. Proposed distinctive idea of artistic discoveries of the writer, is the result of a new view of the movement of life. One of its manifestations — activity-based image of the protagonist.