About the author:
Aleksandr I. Vanyukov, DSc in Philology, Professor, Department of Russian and Foreign Literature of Institute of Philology and Journalism, Chernyshevsky Saratov State University, Astrahanskaya st. 83, 410012 Saratov, Russia.
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Abstract:
The article analyzes the meaningful and semantically profound relations existing between the character, Grigory Melekhov, and the river in M.A. Sholokhov’s epic novel And Quiet Flows the Don. It is observed that a multidimensional process of epic correlations between the image of the river — “the world of the river” — and the image of the main character is rendered in all four books of the novel And Quiet Flows the Don, starting from the poetics of the title and up to the ending.