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A Companion to Andrei Platonov's the Foundation Pit

A Companion to Andrei Platonov's the Foundation Pit

Seifrid, Thomas

Hardcover

Series: Studies in Russian and Slavic Literatures, Cultures, and His

Literary CriticismRussian History

ISBN10: 1934843083
ISBN13: 9781934843086
Publisher: Academic Studies Pr
Published: Apr 1 2009
Pages: 204
Weight: 1.02
Height: 0.50 Width: 6.14 Depth: 9.21
Language: English
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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