The Foal. Audiobook.
Mikhail A. Sholokhov. The Foal: Stanitsa Audio / Compiled by Yu. I. Goroulko-Shestopalov. Read by artist of the National Philarmonic of Ukraine Vera Bondarchuk. – Stanitsa-Kiev Ltd., 2024. – 30 min.
Synopsis
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A short story ''The Foal'' by the classic of Russian and world literature Mikhail Alexandrovich Sholokhov (1905-1984), Nobel Prize laureate (1965), written in 1926.
War and life: the most terrible evil of all in confrontation with the highest value on this planet. The two universals skillfully contrasted by the author in a touching and tragic story.
As the plot continues the charge of antithesis condenses as if in thunderclouds. Potential difference between good and evil finally cannot be maintained. And a bright climatic flash as if some lightning highlights sharply in an instant the contrasting feature of life and death. To reaffirm the comprehensive meaning of life as it is.
Cover and book artwork: Ekaterina Shevchenko.
The cover design uses a reproduction of the painting by V. I. Surikov (1848-1916) The Shooting Cossack, 1893.
Recording: Wood Records studio. Sound engineer Mikhail Lukyanenko.
The musical accompaniment includes a fragment of the Cossack folk song “War Horse with a Marching Pack” (a drawn-out Don Cossack song) performed by the song ensemble “ The Cossack Circle” (artistic director: Vladimir Skuntsev).
Length
00 h. 30 min.
File size, Mb
19 Mb
Language
Russian
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