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...week his fellow Nobel prizewinner, Alexander Solzhenitsyn, accused Sholokhov of plagiarism in a preface to a critical study of The Quiet Don* published in Paris. Solzhenitsyn declared that the real author of the epic tale of Don Cossacks in World War I and the Russian civil war was Fyodor Kryukov, a Cossack writer...
...Kryukov is known to have written a massive work entitled The Quiet...
...Kryukov's manuscript, however, somehow mysteriously disappeared when he died in the civil war in 1920 at the age of 50. Solzhenitsyn believes that Sholokhov obtained Kryukov's manuscript a few years later and passed it off as his own-with some politically necessary but stylistically clumsy modifications...
...theorizes that since Kryukov, a White officer in the civil war, had written sympathetically of the anti-Soviet side, Sholokhov had to insert passages favorable to the Red cause and introduce Bolshevik heroes into the novel...
Although the evidence is compelling that Sholokhov plagiarized the book that won him laurels both at home and abroad, it is nonetheless circumstantial. Kryukov's manuscript cannot be directly traced to Sholokhov; he claims that his own drafts for The Quiet Don were destroyed during the war. Solzhenitsyn has now appealed to literary scholars and researchers to examine closely The Quiet Don for "unevennesses of style and internal contradictions" that point to dual authorship...