About the author:
Svetlana G. Semyonova, DSc in Philology, Director of Research, A.M. Gorky Institute of World Literature of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Povarskaya 25 a, 121069 Moscow, Russia.
Abstract:
A system of comic images and motifs in the works of M.A. Sholokhov is analyzed, taking its origins in the culture of folk humor. Most fully it is embodied in his novels Quiet Flows the Don and Virgin Soil Upturned, representing the opposition of laughter to the tragic period and persistence of people’s worldview.