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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...
...river Don, deep in Cossack country, in the tiny village of Veshenskaya, lives gentle-mannered Mikhail Sholokhov. There, under the straw which roofs his three-room cottage, Sholokhov watches the great river swell and wither with the seasons and writes novels (such as And Quiet Flows the Don) which are the closest approach to enduring literature that revolutionary Russia has produced. An impressed American once said of Sholokhov: "He writes for no censorship except truth...
...revolutionary Russia, truth is what the Communist Party's Agitation and Propaganda section says it should be. In remote, snowclad Veshenskaya, Sholokhov was summoned to lend his powerful pen and his novelist's imagery to the clamor that is party truth in 1948. Sholokhov obliged. Last week, the Soviet radio carried his new message...
...opinion, one man stands above and apart from all these things. He is Mikhail Sholokhov, the nearest approach to a man of genius in Russia's great tradition. The author of And Quiet Flows the Don and The Soil Upturned stays in his native village of Veshenskaya and writes. He does not come to Moscow to spend the writers' tremendous royalties and reap his great honors. He refuses to become the president of the Writers' Un ion, because he is too busy - writing. He writes for no censorship except truth as he sees it. He is just...
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