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Record Nr.

UNISA996328047103316

Autore

Seifrid Thomas

Titolo

A companion to Andrei Platonov's the foundation pit [[electronic resource] /] / Thomas Seifrid

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Boston, : Academic Studies Press, 2009

ISBN

1-61811-697-5

1-934843-57-1

1-61811-001-2

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (203 p.)

Collana

Studies in Russian and Slavic literatures, cultures and history

Altri autori (Persone)

PlatonovAndreĭ Platonovich <1899-1951.>

Disciplina

891.73/42

Soggetti

Politics and literature - Soviet Union - History - 20th century

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

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

Nota di contenuto

Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- CHAPTER ONE. Platonov's Life -- CHAPTER TWO. Intellectual Influences on Platonov -- CHAPTER THREE. The Literary Context of The Foundation Pit -- CHAPTER FOUR. The Political Context of The Foundation Pit -- CHAPTER FIVE. The Foundation Pit Itself -- Index

Sommario/riassunto

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.