After the liberation of kiev in 1943, ilya ehrenburg. Pdf andrei platonov and the living dialectic of the pushkinian. He had a basic education and worked as a manual labourer till the revolution, when he started writing. No matter how experienced his destiny, he continued to believe in the possibility of human happiness, the true values of the world. Platonov, or the disinherited is jay scheibs remix of the traditions of shakespeareinthepark, the ribald nostalgia of the driveinmovie, and the unpredictability of liveonlocationbroadcasting to create a. Andrei platonov was born in 1899 in a russian village and died in obscurity in 1951. Ermilov, editor of literary gazette, attacked platonovs story as slander of. Andrei platonov and the living dialectic of the pushkinian person jason cieply in recent years, a fair amount has been written about andrei platonovs. Kliemtov born on 1 september 1899 20 august, old style in voronezh. The foundation pitcjevengur s talin called him scum. Andrei platonov 18991951 pseudonym of andrei klimentov. Andrey platonov is considered the greatest postrevolution russian writer. The foundation pit is a gloomy symbolic and semisatirical novel by andrei platonov.
Platonov was not widely known, but he was widely read. He studied in moscow, then worked as a frontline journalist after the german invasion. See thomas seifrid, a companion to andrei platonovs the foundation. Robert chandler is a russianenglish translator who has translated several works by vasily grossman, nikolai leskovs lady macbeth of mtsensk, and alexander pushkins dubrovsky and the captains daughter. Sholokhov, gorky, pasternak, and bulgakov all thought he was the bees knees. Born in 1899, he trained as an engineer, fought in the red army and began to. A companion to andrei platonovs the foundation pit on jstor. Utopia, dystopia, and community john riser, florida gulf coast university introduction while this essay recapitulates various wellknown events and works in the development of andrei.
Platonov, andrei platonovich, 18991951 lc linked data. Robert chandler on andrey platonovich platonov asymptote. Andrei platonov chevengur pdf stalin called him scum. Suhrkamp verlag, 2016 onlineressource, mit zahlreichen abbildungen onlineausgabe de1011122417683. From september 1942, after being recommended to the chief editor of red star by his friend vasily grossman, platonov worked as a war correspondent and managed to publish several volumes of. Soul and other stories by andrei platonov a true soviet.
Andrei platonov was the pen name of andrei platonovich klimentov russian. Discover book depositorys huge selection of andrey platonov books online. Andrei platonov, august 28, 1899 january 5, 1951, was the pen name of andrei platonovich klimentov, a soviet author whose works anticipate existentialism. Soul, by andrey platonov, translated by robert chandler. Andrej platonow suhrkampbasisbiographie book, 2016. Platonov is a key representative of the middle ground between writers who were against the state, and those who functioned as part of it by following closely the demands of socialist realism. Master and margarita 196667 and andrey platonovs dark pictures of rural and semiurban russia, the foundation pit. A hundred years of andrei platonov first volume of platonov special issue of. Books by andrei platonov author of the foundation pit. The linked data service provides access to commonly found standards and vocabularies promulgated by the library of congress. The foundation pit portrays a group of workmen and local bureaucrats engaged in digging the foundation pit for what is to become a grand general building. Andrei platonov on youtube, which includes animated adaptations of some of his stories and an interview with aleksandr solzhenitsyn.
It used to be thought that platonov was born on august 20september 1, but recent scholarship has established the earlier date. But when andrei platonov died in poverty, misery and obscurity in 1951, no one would. The foundation pit translated by robert and elizabeth. This includes data values and the controlled vocabularies that house them. Pdf the aspiration to create a better, fairer world is a central theme in platonovs. This is a page dedicated to the early 20th century soviet writer andrei platonov. Andrej platonov and franz kajka 83 how ever far from expressionism platonov may have been, traces of expressionist imagery can nonetheless be found in his works.
If platonov is a soviet writer, in the sense that his works always in some way originate in changes brought about by the october revolution of 1917,the foundation pitis a response to a very specific moment in. Though his literary career began with the blessing of gorky, it was soon blighted when his writing fell under stalins critical. Andrei platonov was born andrei platonovich klimentov in iamskaia sloboda, near voronezh in 1899. Open for discussion, new publications and tributes. On the urging of an editor i respect highly, who had read this book in college. Andrej platonov and the pragmatics of radical modernism.
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