The MediaBook studio presents the cult and outstanding audiobook “Donskie Rasskazy” (“Don Stories”) by the famous Russian Soviet writer Mikhail Alexandrovich Sholokhov, the 1965 Nobel Prize laureate in Literature—for “the artistic power and integrity of the epic about Don Cossacks in the pivotal time for Russia.” The prize was awarded for the novel “And Quiet Flows the Don.”
Mikhail Sholokhov received a number of the highest awards of the USSR—Stalin Prize (1941), Lenin Prize (1960). Twice Hero of Socialist Labor (1967, 1980), and also a full member of the USSR Academy of Sciences (1939).
Several feature films were made based on “Don Stories”: “Don Story” (“Don’skaya povest’”), “The Colt,” “The Hooligan” (Lenfilm, 1964), “Uninvited Love” (“Alien Blood”) Mosfilm. 1964.
This book was read by the popular director, artist, and dubbing actor Sergey Gorbunov.
“Like a steppe flower, stories by comrade t. Sholokhov appear as a living spot. Simple, vivid, and narratable—you feel it in front of your eyes. An imagistic language—that colorful language the Cossacks speak. Compressed, and this compression is full of life, tension, and truth. A sense of proportion in sharp moments—so they pierce. Vast knowledge of what he tells. A subtle, capturing eye. The ability to choose among many signs the most characteristic.” A. S. Serafimovich