Silent Don (English spelling) Tihiy Don

Japanese: 静かなドン - しずかなどん(英語表記)Тихий Дон/Tihiy Don
Silent Don (English spelling) Tihiy Don

A full-length novel by Soviet novelist Sholokhov. Parts 1, 2, and 3 were published in 1928, parts 4 and 5 in 1929, part 6 in 1933, and parts 7 and 8 in 1940, making up a total of four volumes. Grigory Melekhov, a Cossack living on the banks of the Don River, is a man of intense passion and rich sensitivity, but he seriously considers his own future and the fate of the Cossacks, suffers anguish, and worries, moving between the Red Army and the White Army. This epic novel depicts in a powerful style the history of the Cossacks living in a turbulent era from World War I through the revolution and the civil war, centering on the tragedy of his downfall as he tries to be true to himself and ultimately pursues the path of counter-revolution. As an epic poem of the Russian Revolution that questions the meaning of history and the individual, and in terms of its grand scale and the accuracy and detail of its descriptions of nature and psychology, it is comparable to Leo Tolstoy's War and Peace and is considered the greatest classic of Soviet literature and the one that best inherited that tradition.

[Tadao Mizuno]

"Tadao Mizuno's translation of "New Collection of World Literature 31-33: The Silent Don" (1970, Chuokoron-Shinsha)""Mizuho Yokota's translation of "The Silent Don" complete set of 8 volumes (Iwanami Bunko)"

Source: Shogakukan Encyclopedia Nipponica About Encyclopedia Nipponica Information | Legend

Japanese:

ソ連の小説家ショーロホフの長編小説。第1、2、3部は1928年、第4、5部は29年、第6部は33年、第7、8部は40年にそれぞれ発表され、全4巻として完成した。ドン川岸のコサックのグリゴーリー・メレホフは激しい情熱と豊かな感受性の持ち主であるが、自分自身の未来とコサックの運命とを真剣に考え、苦悩し、煩悶(はんもん)し、赤軍と白軍の間を転々とする。彼が自己に忠実であろうとして、結果としては反革命の道を突き進み、破滅してしまう悲劇を軸にして、第一次世界大戦から革命を経て国内戦に至る激動の時代に生きるコサックの歴史を雄渾(ゆうこん)な筆致で描き出した大河小説である。歴史と個人の意味を問いかけたロシア革命の叙事詩として、またスケールの大きさ、自然描写や心理描写の的確さ・細密さにおいて、レフ・トルストイの『戦争と平和』に比肩し、その伝統をもっともよく継承したソビエト文学最大の古典とみなされている。

[水野忠夫]

『水野忠夫訳『新集世界の文学31~33 静かなドン』(1970・中央公論社)』『横田瑞穂訳『静かなドン』全8冊(岩波文庫)』

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