The Foundation Pit - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Foundation Pit write by Andrei Platonov. This book was released on 2022-03-01. The Foundation Pit available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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.
A Companion to Andrei Platonov's The Foundation Pit
A Companion to Andrei Platonov's The Foundation Pit - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook A Companion to Andrei Platonov's The Foundation Pit write by Thomas Seifrid. This book was released on 2009. A Companion to Andrei Platonov's The Foundation Pit available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Котлован
Котлован - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Котлован write by Андрей Платонович Платонов. This book was released on 1973. Котлован available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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.
Soul
Soul - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Soul write by Andrey Platonov. This book was released on 2007-12-04. Soul available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A New York Review Books Original The Soviet writer Andrey Platonov saw much of his work suppressed or censored in his lifetime. In recent decades, however, these lost works have reemerged, and the eerie poetry and poignant humanity of Platonov’s vision have become ever more clear. For Nadezhda Mandelstam and Joseph Brodsky, Platonov was the writer who most profoundly registered the spiritual shock of revolution. For a new generation of innovative post-Soviet Russian writers he figures as a daring explorer of word and world, the master of what has been called “alternative realism.” Depicting a devastated world that is both terrifying and sublime, Platonov is, without doubt, a universal writer who is as solitary and haunting as Kafka. 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, described by Penelope Fitzgerald as one of “three great works of Russian literature of the millennium”; “The River Potudan,” a moving account of a troubled marriage; and the title novella, the extraordinary 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. This prizewinning English translation is the first to be based on the newly available uncensored texts of Platonov’s short fiction.
Happy Moscow
Happy Moscow - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Happy Moscow write by Andrey Platonov. This book was released on 2012-11-13. Happy Moscow available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. An NYRB Classics Original Moscow Chestnova is a bold and glamorous girl, a beautiful parachutist who grew up with the Revolution. As an orphan, she knew tough times—but things are changing now. Comrade Stalin has proclaimed that “Life has become better! Life has become merrier!” and Moscow herself is poised to join the Soviet elite. But her ambitions are thwarted when a freak accident propels her flaming from the sky. A new, stranger life begins. Moscow drifts from man to man, through dance halls, all-night diners, and laboratories in which the secret of immortality is actively being investigated, exploring the endless avenues and vacant spaces of the great city whose name she bears, looking for happiness, somewhere, still. Unpublishable during Platonov’s lifetime, Happy Moscow first appeared in Russian only in 1991. This new edition contains not only a revised translation of Happy Moscow but several related works: a screenplay, a prescient essay about ecological catastrophe, and two short stories in which same characters reappear and the reader sees the mind of an extraordinary writer at work.
