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Record Nr.

UNINA9910466339703321

Autore

Platonov Andrei

Titolo

Fourteen little red huts and other plays / / Andrei Platonov ; edited by Robert Chandler ; translated by Robert Chandler, Jesse Irwin, and Susan Larsen ; with notes by Robert Chandler and Natalya Duzhina

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York : , : Columbia University Press, , [2017]

©2017

ISBN

0-231-54353-0

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (244 pages)

Collana

Russian Library

Disciplina

891.7242

Soggetti

Russian drama

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.

Nota di contenuto

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Introduction -- The Hurdy-Gurdy -- Fourteen Little Red Huts -- Grandmother's Little Hut -- Afterword -- Acknowledgments -- A Note on Names -- Notes -- Further Reading

Sommario/riassunto

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.