A companion to Andrei Platonov's The foundation pit / Thomas Seifrid.
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 pr...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Academic Studies Press,
2009.
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| Series: | Studies in Russian and Slavic literatures, cultures and history.
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| Summary: | 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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| Physical Description: | 1 electronic resource (195 pages ). |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 182-185) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781618119377 1618119370 9781618110015 1618110012 9781618116970 1618116975 |