A companion to Andrei Platonov's the foundation pit /

Seifrid, Thomas,

A companion to Andrei Platonov's the foundation pit / Thomas Seifrid. - 1 online resource (195 pages) : illustrations, portrait - Studies in Russian and Slavic literatures, cultures and history . - Studies in Russian and Slavic literatures, cultures and history. .

Includes bibliographical references (pages 182-185) and index.

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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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9781618110015 1618110012 9781618116970 1618116975

22573/ctt1zwtkmx JSTOR 101823 Knowledge Unlatched


Platonov, Andreĭ Platonovich, 1899-1951. Kotlovan.
Platonov, Andreĭ Platonovich, 1899-1951 --Criticism and interpretation.
Platonov, Andreĭ Platonovich, 1899-1951.
Platonov, Andrej P. Kotlovan.


Kotlovan (Platonov, Andreĭ Platonovich)


1900-1999


Politics and literature--History--Soviet Union--20th century.
LITERARY CRITICISM--Russian & Former Soviet Union.
Politics and literature.


Soviet Union.

Arts Literary Criticism


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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History.
Electronic books

PG3476.P543 / K637 2009eb

891.73/42