Information about ex. editor:
Natalya V. Kornienko
Natalia V. Kornienko, DSc in Philology, Corresponding Member of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Director of Research, Head of the Department of Modern Russian Literature and Literature of the Russian Abroad, А.M. Gorky Institute of World Literature of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Povarskaya 25 a, 121069 Moscow, Russia
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Abstract:
The book contains letters sent from readers to M.A. Sholokhov from 1956 to 1984, and represents a sequel to the 2020 edition containing letters from Sholokhov's readers sent from 1929 to 1955. The collected letters from two archives in the rural locality Vyoshenskaya — the National Sholokhov Museum-Reserve and the Sholokhov family archive — have been published for the first time ever. In addition to presenting the readers' view of the historical and literary developments in the second half of the 20th century, this book also reveals contents of the readers' dialogue with Sholokhov and their attitude to the writer's works and speeches held at the 20th — 23rd Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, thereby expanding and deepening our understanding of not only the Soviet Russian literature history but also of the history and culture of 20th century Russia in general. The book is intended for philologists, historians, sociologists, and a broad circle of readers.
Keywords: Sholokhov, biography, source studies, archives, readers, criticism, contexts, transcripts.