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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Dear Corpora colleagues, I wonder if you could
advise me which methods to use to investigate the authorship of Tihiy Don (The
Quiet Don) by Mihail A. Sholohov? Some time ago there was a heated
discussion on the authorship of Tihiy Don for which Mihail Sholohov received the
Nobel Prize in literature. A. I. Solzhenitsyn, I.N. Medvedeva-Tomashevskaya, Z.
Tomashevskaya, A. Zayats, V, Pravdyuk, R. Medvedev, A. Fomenko and M. Mezentsev
are sure that M. Sholohov stole the text of Tihiy Don from Fedor Kryukov, who
was the Don writer and died during the Russian Civil war in 1919. A. Fomenko
studied the frequency of occurrence of the functional words and came to the
conclusion that it was not Sholohov who wrote Tihiy Don (The Quiet Don) but
Fedor Kryukov. However, the Norwegian Slavist Kjetso came to the oposite
conclusion, using the statistical methods. Kjetso stated that it was Sholohov
who wrote Tihiy Don. I wonder if there were any other investigations using math.
statistical methods. I studied the use of the prepositions in the prose of
Sholohov, Krykov, Tolstoy, Dostoevskiy, Goncharov, Turgenev, Bulgakov and some
other writers. I wonder in which journal or magazine I may publish my results.
I'd like to discuss my results with those interested. I am looking forward to
hearing from you to my e-mail address: <A
href="mailto:yutamb@mail.ru">yutamb@mail.ru</A> Sincerely yours Yuri
Tambovtsev, Novosibirsk, Russia </FONT></DIV></BODY></HTML>