About the author:
Natalya V. Kornienko, Сorresponding Member of RAS, DSc in Philology, А.М. Gorky Institute of World Literature of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Povarskaya 25 а, 121069 Moscow, Russia.
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Abstract:
The article deals with a wide range of theoretical, historical literary, and source criticism issues related to the theme of Sholokhov’s literary contemporaries; also, the present work provides new archival materials and analyses literary portraits of the writer’s contemporaries as rendered in the Sholokhovian Encyclopedia.