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The Foundation Pit
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Author : Andrei Platonov
language : en
Publisher: ISCI
Release Date : 2022-03-01
The Foundation Pit written by Andrei Platonov and has been published by ISCI this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-03-01 with Political Science categories.
Written at the height of Stalin's first "five-year plan" for the industrialization of Soviet Russia and the parallel campaign to collectivize Soviet agriculture, Andrei Platonov's The Foundation Pit registers a dissonant mixture of utopian longings and despair. Furthermore, it provides essential background to Platonov's parody of the mainstream Soviet "production" novel, which is widely recognized as one of the masterpieces of twentieth-century Russian prose. In addition to an overview of the work's key themes, it discusses their place within Platonov's oeuvre as a whole, his troubled relations with literary officialdom, the work's ideological and political background, and key critical responses since the work's first publication in the West in 1973.
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Author : Andreĭ Platonovich Platonov
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1973
written by Andreĭ Platonovich Platonov and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1973 with Russian fiction categories.
The Foundation Pit belongs to a very special category. In this work, the central metaphor for an era - in this case the digging of a hole that will be the foundation for a huge building that will house the newly enfranchised proletariat - is described in precisely the language the confused working class was given by the mass media of the time - beyond surreal, newspeak pushed to its limit.
A Companion To Andrei Platonov S The Foundation Pit
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Author : Thomas Seifrid
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2009
A Companion To Andrei Platonov S The Foundation Pit written by Thomas Seifrid and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009 with Politics and literature categories.
A Companion To Andrei Platonov S The Foundation Pit
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Author : Thomas Seifrid
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2009
A Companion To Andrei Platonov S The Foundation Pit written by Thomas Seifrid and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009 with History categories.
Written at the height of Stalin's first "five-year plan" for the industrialization of Soviet Russia and the parallel campaign to collectivize Soviet agriculture, Andrei Platonov's The Foundation Pit registers a dissonant mixture of utopian longings and despair. Furthermore, it provides essential background to Platonov's parody of the mainstream Soviet "production" novel, which is widely recognized as one of the masterpieces of twentieth-century Russian prose. In addition to an overview of the work's key themes, it discusses their place within Platonov's oeuvre as a whole, his troubled relations with literary officialdom, the work's ideological and political background, and key critical responses since the work's first publication in the West in 1973.
The Return And Other Stories
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Author : Andrey Platonov
language : en
Publisher: Random House
Release Date : 2014-07-10
The Return And Other Stories written by Andrey Platonov and has been published by Random House this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-07-10 with Fiction categories.
"Reading Platonov, one gets a sense of the relentless, implacable absurdity built into the language and with each...utterance, that absurdity deepens" - Joseph Brodsky People are on the move in all ten stories in this collection, coming home as in "The Return", leaving home as in "Rubbish Wind", travelling far away from their country as in "The Locks of Epiphan", trying to improve their lives and those of others, running away, searching, fleeing. Their journeys are accompanied by two motives which characterize the writing of Andrey Platonov: optimism and faith in the goodness of humanity, and abject despair at the cruelty, randomness, and apparent senselessness of our existence. The protagonists are torn between these poles and sometimes a synthesis shines through the mists of the apparent naivety of faith and the blackness of despair: the hope against hope that a better life is still possible. Though Russian readers and critics have come to look on Platonov as among their greatest prose writers of this century, he has yet to enjoy a parallel international reputation - mainly because much of his best writing was suppressed for more than 60 years. Combining a realism inspired by his work as an engineer with poetic vision and the deceptively simple language of folk tales, Platonov sets his stories alight by using language in a way that renders it unfamiliar, makes the ordinary seem unusual and the extraordinary logical. This translation is the first to present the full range of Platonov's gift as a short story writer to an English-language readership, showing why it is that Joseph Brodsky regarded Platonov as the equal of Joyce, Kafka and Proust. "...strange, almost abrupt, a hallucinatory, nightmarish parable of hysterical laughter and terrifying silences" - Eileen Battersby, Irish Times - in reference to The Foundation Pit
Happy Moscow
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Author : Andrey Platonov
language : en
Publisher: Random House
Release Date : 2014-07-10
Happy Moscow written by Andrey Platonov and has been published by Random House this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-07-10 with Fiction categories.
TRANSLATED AND WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY ROBERT CHANDLER Moscow in the 1930s is a symbol of Soviet paradise; a fairy-tale capital where, in Stalin's words, 'life has become better, life has become merrier". Beautiful, passionate, Moscow Chestnova bears her captial's name, and seeks the happiness it promises. She flits from man to man, fascinated by the brave new world supposedly taking shape around her, on a quest for the better life. This anarchic satire is accompanied by related works - short stories, an essay and a screenplay - and through Robert Chandler's acclaimed new translations Platonov's extraordinary prose and original vision can at last be experienced in full.
Soul
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Author : Andrey Platonov
language : en
Publisher: NYRB Classics
Release Date : 2008
Soul written by Andrey Platonov and has been published by NYRB Classics this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008 with Fiction categories.
"This volume gathers eight works that show Platonov at his tenderest, warmest, and subtlest. Among them are "The Return," about an officer's difficult homecoming at the end of World War II; "The River Potudan," an account of a troubled marriage; and the title novella, the tale of a young man unexpectedly transformed by his return to his Asian birthplace, where he finds his people deprived not only of food and dwelling, but of memory and speech."--BOOK JACKET.
Soul
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Author : Andrey Platonov
language : en
Publisher: Random House
Release Date : 2014-09-30
Soul written by Andrey Platonov and has been published by Random House this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-09-30 with Fiction categories.
TRANSLATED AND WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY ROBERT AND ELIZABETH CHANDLER 'For the mind, everthing is in the future' Platonov once wrote; 'for the heart, everything is in the past'. The protagonist of Soul is a young man torn between these opposing desires, sent as a kind of missionary to bring the values of modern Russia to his childhood home town in Central Asia. In this strange, haunting novella, as well as in the seven stories that accompany it, a rediscovered master of twentieth century Russian literature is shown at his wisest and most humane. WITH AN AFTERWORD BY JOHN BERGER
Fourteen Little Red Huts And Other Plays
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Author : Andrei Platonov
language : en
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Release Date : 2016-12-06
Fourteen Little Red Huts And Other Plays written by Andrei Platonov and has been published by Columbia University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-12-06 with Drama categories.
In this essential collection of Andrei Platonov's plays, the noted Platonov translator Robert Chandler edits and introduces The Hurdy-Gurdy (translated by Susan Larsen), Fourteen Little Red Huts (translated by Chandler), and Grandmother's Little Hut (translated by Jesse Irwin). Written in 1930 and 1933, respectively, The Hurdy-Gurdy and Fourteen Little Red Huts constitute an impassioned and penetrating response to Stalin's assault on the Soviet peasantry. They reflect the political urgency of Bertolt Brecht and anticipate the tragic farce of Samuel Beckett but play out through dialogue and characterization that is unmistakably Russian. This volume also includes Grandmother's Little Hut, an unfinished play that represents Platonov's later, gentler work.
Kotlovan The Foundation Pit
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Author : Andreĭ Platonovich Platonov
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1973
Kotlovan The Foundation Pit written by Andreĭ Platonovich Platonov and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1973 with categories.