A Companion to Andrei Platonovs the Foundation Pit

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Academic Studies Press

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491_9781934843086

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Written at the height of Stalins first five-year plan for the industrialization of Soviet Russia and the parallel campaign to collectivizeSoviet agriculture, Andrei Platonovs The Foundation Pitregisters a dissonant mixture of utopian longings and despair. Furthermore,it provides essential background to Platonovs parodyof the mainstream Soviet production novel, which is widelyrecognized as one of the masterpieces of twentieth-century Russianprose. In addition to an overview of the works key themes, itdiscusses their place within Platonovs oeuvre as a whole, his troubledrelations with literary officialdom, the works ideologicaland political background, and key critical responses since its firstpublication in the West in 1973.Thomas Seifid (PhD 1984, Cornell University) is Professor atUniversity of Southern California. Author of Andrei Platonov.Uncertainties of Spirit (Cambridge University Press, 1992), The WordMade Self: Russian Writings on Language, 1860-1930 (Cornell UniversityPress, 2005), and numerous articles on Russian literatureand culture.

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