About the author:
Vadim V. Kozhinov (1930–2001), PhD in Philology, Leading Research Fellow, 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. The question of authorship of the novel dealt with in connection with the same, according to the author, the hypotheses of the works of Homer and Shakespeare. And Quiet Flows the Don is interpreted as a reflection of the “eternal” questions of humanity arising from the tragic twentieth century on Russian soil.