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...racing. Aidan O'Brien's horses have such a record of winning big races that other trainers are now almost reluctant to put their charges up against them. When O'Brien entered his colt Hawk Wing in the prestigious Eclipse Stakes at Sandown, England, a week ago, with stablemate Sholokhov as his pacemaker, they faced only three other horses. Hawk Wing and Sholokhov duly romped home. That success came only weeks after one of O'Brien's outstanding colts, High Chaparral, led a one-two in the English Derby and a sweep of the first three places in the Irish...
Before last week's announcement, one Nobel selection that warmed the Kremlin's heart was that of Mikhail Sholokhov, the court novelist who received the Literature Prize in 1965. He was allowed to go to Stockholm and deposit his check in a bank there. But in 1974 the exiled Solzhenitsyn accused Sholokhov of plagiarism. He claimed Sholokhov had based portions of his epic of the Russian Revolution and civil war, The Quiet Don, on a manuscript written just after World War I by a Cossack, Fyodor Kryukov...
...Soviet troops in Afghanistan. Last week the man at the top flashed the clearest signal yet, and it sent peace hopes soaring. In a move clearly timed to capture a wide audience, a Soviet broadcaster interrupted a prime-time television showing of the 1958 film based on Mikhail Sholokhov's classic, And Quiet Flows the Don, to read an announcement from Gorbachev. There are "considerable chances," said the General Secretary's statement, that the next round of peace talks on Afghanistan "will become the final...
DIED. Mikhail Sholokhov, 78, Soviet author of And Quiet Flows the Don, an epic of Cossack life in the years following the Russian Revolution, and winner of the 1965 Nobel Prize for Literature; in Veshenskaya, a village 440 miles south of Moscow. Sholokhov's masterpiece, published between 1928 and 1940, was praised by both Western critics and Soviet authorities. A member of the Communist Party since 1932, he publicly denounced dissident Soviet writers, including fellow Nobel Laureate Alexander Solzhenitsyn, who in turn charged Sholokhov with having plagiarized large sections of And Quiet Flows the Don from a lesser-known...
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...