About the author:
Yury A. Dvoryashin, DSc in Philology, Professor, Leading Research Fellow, 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 article presents for the first time a systematic analysis of that textual changes (of technical or accidental nature, as well as made by the author or editors) which can be found in the first two books (parts 1–5) of M.A. Sholokhov’s novel And Quiet Flows the Don. The changes were made during the writer’s life and may be regarded as connected with every step of the novel’s creative history — from the drafts and the clean autographs, the journal publication and the first separate editions to the publication within the Collected Works of Mikhail Sholokhov.