Has anyone read "The silent Don"?

[Pantelej]

Has anyone read "The silent Don"?, just wondering

[Koa]

I haven't read it, I would be curious though.

[Pantelej]

i've read some time ago, if you read it,
please tell me what you thought of it.
I think it was very exciting.
You can almost feel the time.
( In the book ).

[caspian]

I've seen movie (soviet production-quite old) when i was kid. it's 5 or 6 series. My parents were watching them with great interest. it's about kazaks's life in Russia Empire before October revolution and during it as well.(i think so) it's really quite exiting,though I don't remember the main subject, i can still remember some exiting schenes of it.

[Thorwench]

I know it is ages ago that pantelej asked who had read the book. anyways, I'm still reading it (in German, alas) and am amazed that it was ever published in the SU, it seems like a hard-core and even more moving parallel to dr. shivago. I also don't believe that it is by Sholokhov (even if text-analysts do nowadays). If you read S.'s other stuff really, it is sooo different ideologically.

[Boris239]

I've read "Silent Don" and enjoyed it very much. There are a lot of versions who really wrote it. The most popular is that it was written by one the officers who died during the Civil War. It's indeed very different from other Sholokhov's books and it was ineed written by him he was really young at the time.

[Scheherazade]

Has anyone read "The silent Don"?, just wonderingMy mom has.

[Thorwench]

Yeah I know, he supposedly was only 21. :goof: However, the understanding of the situation of re-evaluation of all values, of disorientation and human fickleness is much more apparent in the Silent Don than in any of the later works which are much more ideologically correct (with the exception of "The Fate of Man" (sorry, I only know the German and Russian titles) where this guy returns from WW2 and is found by this little boy who thinks the soldier is his dead father.) Anyways and apart from all theoretical analysis, I find the book almost too hard to read because 1. I have to overcome my historical knowledge of how it will end since all my sympathies, funnily enough, are with Grigori and not with the Reds and 2.it deeply upsets my own opinion of the Great Russian Revolution of 1917. Not that I don't know about all the crimes committed under Lenin's, and Stalin's, leadership. It is just that you always think that you have a relatively clear picture of all the pros and cons and have found for yourself some justification or, at least, explanation of why this happened and now you get the impression that there were only cons and nothing was justifiable. Even if this seems odd but I have to come to terms with my idea of Russia and the Soviet Union and what it was all about, since, as an East German, I still have to pick up the pieces.