Andrei platonov article about andrei platonov by the. A companion to andrei platonovs the foundation pit book description. Mikhail vasilyevitch platonov a schoolteacher aleksandra sasha ivanovna married to platonov osip a horse thief, 30 marko an old messenger yakov servant to anna petrovna dd 4 1112016 10. Written in 192930, it remained unpublished in platonovs russian homeland until 1987 26 years after his death but had previously been published in russian in the usa in 1973.
Internet, private and filesharing networks, information storage and retrieval systems, photocopying, and the rights of translation into foreign languages are strictly reserved. He graduated from the voronezh railroad polytechnicum in 1924. Feb 02, 2016 chevengur, a novel by andrei platonov. The foundation pit translated by robert and elizabeth.
Platonovs reputation as one of russias most important twentiethcentury writers is confirmed by this new translation of his novel, the foundation pit. Platonov, or the disinherited is jay scheibs remix of the traditions of shakespeareinthepark, the ribald nostalgia of the driveinmovie, and the unpredictability of liveonlocationbroadcasting to create a new livecinema performance. The influence of andrey platonov 18991951, a gifted writer of the soviet era, has pervaded soviet and russian literature since the 1950s. May 08, 2020 andrei platonov chevengur pdf stalin called him scum. But when andrei platonov died in poverty, misery and obscurity in 1951, no one would have. A companion to andrei platonovs the foundation pit on jstor. Andrei platonov article about andrei platonov by the free.
Since the collapse of the soviet union, there has been a steady flow of new platonov texts. Aug 20, 2019 andrei platonov chevengur pdf stalin called him scum. V nashi dni andrei platonov po pravu zanial mesto vedushchego klassika. The return and other stories isbn 9781846553387 pdf epub. Master and margarita 196667 and andrey platonovs dark pictures of rural and semiurban russia, the foundation pit 1973 and chevengur 1972. Andrei platonov 18991951 pseudonym of andrei klimentov. Andrei platonov, on the first socialist tragedy, nlr 69. Andrei platonov on youtube, which includes animated adaptations of some of his stories and an interview with aleksandr solzhenitsyn. It would be hard to imagine a writer who better embodied the ambitions and ambiguities, energies and tensions, of the first three decades of soviet literature than andrei platonov. Andrei platonov wikipedia buy a cheap copy of the foundation pit book by andrei platonov.
Reliable information about the coronavirus covid19 is available from the world health organization current situation, international travel. The year 1934, his thirtyfifth, was a significant watershed in the life of andrei platonov. On the first socialist tragedy, by andrei platonov. Sep 07, 2019 andrei platonov chevengur pdf stalin called him scum. The son of a railroad shop metalworker, platonov began working at the age of. In his mature works platonov described ordinary people living on the physical and emotional edge, and reversed. Buy online, pick up in store is currently unavailable, but this item may be available for instore purchase. Russian avantgardist zhiznestroitelstvo in its various socialist forms bogdanov, chiuzhak, tretiakov, gastev may relate quite well to platonov.
Between 1927 and 1932 he wrote his most politically controversial works, some of them first published in the soviet union only in the late 1980s. Novokhopersk had been occupied by the cossacks while aleksandr dvanov was on his way there, but the detachment of nekhvoraiko the teacher had managed to push them out of the town. Written at the height of stalins first fiveyear 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. Andrei platonov and the avantgarde lifecreation sub specie. Oclcs webjunction has pulled together information and resources to assist library staff as they consider how to handle. He is known for promoting the antisemitic conspiracy theory judeobolshevism, which claims that jews were. Andrei platonov chevengur pdf search for happiness. Particular emphasis is placed upon the matter of readings.
Books by andrei platonov author of the foundation pit. May 01, 2019 v nashi dni andrei platonov po pravu zanial mesto vedushchego klassika. The foundation pit has a complex publishing history. Counting andrei platonov among the greatest russian prose writers of this century, joseph brodsky considered him to be quite untranslatable, and, in one sense, thats a good thing. Chevengur 1929 and his masterpiece the foundation pit 1930, remained unpublished until the relaxation of censorship in the glasnost period of the late 1980s.
Platonovs father was a train engineer, metal worker, and a selftaught inventor. It is decided to send safronov and kozlov to the village to keep the blaze of class struggle burning hot. His achievements are many, but a commonplace shared by almost all critics and readers is that he is a difficult writer joseph brodsky famously compared him to joyce. Andrei platonov immortality after midnight, on the approach to red peregon station, the fd locomotive began to shout and weep. At the foundation pit, pashkin informs the workers that the peasants in the nearby village are longing for a collective farm. He is viewed as one of the great outsiders of soviet literature. Platonovs writing focuses on the threat industrialization poses to human and spiri. Andrei platonov books list of books by author andrei. After giving her sons a bountiful, healthy life, she had retained for herself only a tiny frugal frame, which she had sustainedeven in its most pitiful formfor as long as she could, in order to love her sons and be proud of them, until she died. A companion to andrei platonov s the foundation pit book description. Andrei platonov, 28 august 1899 5 january 1951 was the pen name of andrei platonovich klimentov, a soviet author whose works anticipate existentialism. Introducing andrei platonov by yevgeny yevtushenko the. Andrey platonovich platonov 18991951 began publishing poems and articles in 1918, while studying engineering. Platonov s reputation as one of russias most important twentiethcentury writers is confirmed by this new translation of his novel, the foundation pit.
Andrei platonov has 106 books on goodreads with 26004 ratings. See all books authored by andrei platonov, including the foundation pit, and soul, and more on. Topics ussr, communism, satire collection opensource language english. Andrei platonovs most popular book is the foundation pit. Platonov, andrei article about platonov, andrei by the. Written at the height of stalins first fiveyear plan for the industrialization of soviet russia and the parallel campaign to collectivize soviet agriculture, andrei platonovs the foundation pit registers a dissonant mixture of utopian longings and despair. Platonov, andrei article about platonov, andrei by the free. Im going to try and post on andrei platonovs chevengur later this week but wanted to pass on some links i enjoyed related to the author andor the work. He had already written the foundation pit and chevengur, the novels for which he is today best known, but neither had been published in full.
Andrei platonov and the avantgarde lifecreation sub. Andrei platonov chevengur pdf stalin called him scum. The river potudan 1937, should introduce the student of russian to the complex thought and. Andrei platonovs face, looking out from one of his last photographs, is the face of a tired russian worker. The foundation pit distresses the russian language, showing it splayed and shattered by the demands of. It has not a trace of affectation, no hint of what is called artistic temperament, no monumental profundity, no oracular brilliance in the eyes.
Voshchev tries to defend himself, saying that he is trying to work out a plan for life. The old woman had been dead for three days, yet her neat body, emaciated by a long illness, didnt smell of death. A grim and jagged dystopian novel of the early soviet union, the foundation pit is a scathing indictment of the brutal and antiintellectual soviet apparatchiki. This is a title in the bristol classical press russian texts series, in russian with english notes, vocabulary and introduction. This acclaimed book by andrei platonov is available at in several formats for your ereader. These are questions which sprang to mind as i read andrey platonovs recently retranslated novel. Jun 26, 2019 v nashi dni andrei platonov po pravu zanial mesto vedushchego klassika. The foundation pit by andrei platonov 1930 my body gets weak without truth. Novokhopersk was surrounded by dry ground, except for the approach from the river, which was all. Sholokhov, gorky, pasternak, and bulgakov all thought he was the bees knees. He is the director general of the institute for the history of russian civilization, a moscowbased think tank. Numerous and frequentlyupdated resource results are available from this search. Jul 17, 2019 v nashi dni andrei platonov po pravu zanial mesto vedushchego klassika.
Soviet readers knew him mainly for a few short stories and, above all, his semi. However, formatting rules can vary widely between applications and fields of interest or study. Controversy exists about the actual date of birth, however, and some experts fix it at 28 august 16 august, old style. In the early 1920s he changed his surname klimentov to platonov. In a small town shortly after the revolution, workmen and lowlevel bureaucrats work on the foundation for an enormous building intended to house the entire town. Platonov s father was a train engineer, metal worker, and a selftaught inventor. The management says he just stands around thinking while everyone else is working. In a dusty little town, a worker named voshchev is fired from his job at a small machine factory. His denunciation of the soviet bureaucracy led to severe rebuke by the stalinist authorities and the suppression of his work, rediscovered in the poststalin thaw. On the first socialist tragedy, by andrei platonov east. His early writings, such as the novel the city of gradov 1927, satirized communist bureaucracy and pitted machinery against nature. Kliemtov born on 1 september 1899 20 august, old style in voronezh. Although platonov was a communist, his works were banned in his own lifetime for their skeptical attitude toward collectivization and other stalinist.
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