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A Companion to Andrei Platonov's The Foundation Pit

By Thomas Seifrid

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Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
9 MB (9111162 bytes)
Pages
195\196
Time added
2022-12-04 15:42:32

Description

SUPERANNO 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, while also providing essential background to Platonov's parody of the mainstream Soviet "production" novel. In addition to an overview of the work's key themes, Seifrid's companion discusses the place of The Foundation Pit 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 its first publication in the West in 1973.

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