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"Days sewn with menace were approaching Rostov. The air was laden with the scent of the thawing black earth and the blood of imminent battles."

chapter four was basically yeah sex is cool but have you heard about socialism

one thing that really annoys me about this translation is the old romanizations of place names because I can't find a lot of them on the map because of it :(

"But above blood soaked White Russia the stars wept mournfully. The nocturnal darkness yawned smokily and fluidly. The wind fawned on the earth, saturated with the scent of fallen leaves, of damp, clayey mouldiness, of March snows."

i truly wonder how much of this is artistic intent and how much of this is state sanctioned propaganda but oh well the nature descriptions are fabulous

"Behind them the leg of the dead horse stuck up like a wayside cross bereft of its arm. As Eugene was staring back at it, suddenly a stream of rays fell on the horse, and, lit up with an orange gleam, the leg with its sorrel hair unexpectedly blossomed like a marvellous leafless branch."

mr mikhail sholokov made an inexcusable german grammatical mistake smh smh he should know better considering he didn't even know the language

"'Don't whine so! You're like rain in autumn: one continual drizzle.'
'You should be in my skin,' she retorted."