The Epic Narrative Of The Don Cossacks

Quiet Flows the Don is the most important novel of Mikhail·Sholokhov.In the novel,author expresses his perception and thought for life,and sympathy for the miserable destiny of Cossack.The novel has deep tragic spirit,and shows the pursuit of life and heart.With the ups and downs of Cossack during February Revolution,October Revolution,First World War and Civil War of Soviet Union as its background,the novel describes the rough course of Gregori holding fast to the Cossack spirit and pursuing life ideal and society truth,and truly reflects the miserable social reality and magnificent scene of age at that time.The novel continues the realism tradition of grandiose narration,and shows the unique feature of epic narrative.The first one is depth and breadth of the theme.It deeply reveals the tragic destiny of Cossack,shows the profound national culture and concern for human destiny,and creates a grand Don epic.The second one is feature grand narrative and poetic artistic features.It not only builds grand epic structure and profound narrative,but also shows the poetic spirituality and character in terms of aesthetic features of tragedy,creation of artistic atmosphere,and language style.With Quiet Flows the Don as its research subject,the paper will consider the thematic implication and epic feature as its main research direction.First,with the special community--Cossack,it studies the image of Cossack,and explores the fiction and handling that author has make from historical reality to literary fiction.In terms of the analysis of thematic implication,it will studies from three aspects,including deep analysis of group characters,tragedy of group destiny,and exploration of group fate.In terms of artistic structure,from the perspectives of narrative structure,omniscient narrative perspective,and integrated narrative space-time,it analyses the epic and profound artistic features.In terms of analysis of style features,it analyses grand and tragic scene,unique artistic state and poetic art character.Sholokhov is a great artist with poetic spirit.Quiet Flows the Don is not only a society history,but also nature history.Diverse aesthetic values of the novel demonstrate the transcending-spirit greatness and loftiness of his realism writing.