Tora Lane

Andrey Platonov

The Forgotten Dream of the Revolution

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Produktbeschreibung

This book presents an existentialist reading of Andrey Platonov's perspective on the 1917 Russian Revolution. It brings the works of Platonov into a dialogue with the philosophy of Martin Heidegger, Maurice Blanchot, Georges Bataille, and Jean-Luc Nancy on issues of communality, groundlessness, memory, and interiority.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Lexington Books
• Seitenzahl: 160
• Erscheinungstermin: 11. Mai 2018
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 13mm
• Gewicht: 394g
• ISBN-13: 9781498547758
• ISBN-10: 1498547753
• Artikelnr.: 51148652

Autorenporträt

Tora Lane ph. D is a Project Researcher at CBEES, Sodertorn University, Sweden.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction 1.A Proletarian Existentialist Realism 2.Chevengur and the
Movement of the Revolution 3.The Foundation Pit and the Problem of Time
4.Happy Moscow and Universal Love 5.Dzhan: Retrieving the Inner 6.Reka
Potudan: Love in Existential Poverty 7.The Ecstasy of Common Being and the
Ecstasy of Existence in Common: "Inspired People" and "The Return"
Afterword: The Memory of Utopia and the Utopia of Memory Bibliography About
the Author