Andrey Platonov

The Foundation Pit

Übersetzer: Chandler, Elizabeth; Chandler, Robert; Meerson, Olga

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Produktbeschreibung

TRANSLATED BY ROBERT AND ELIZABETH CHANDLER AND OLGA MEERSONPlatonov's dystopian novel describes the lives of a group of Soviet workers who believe they are laying the foundations for a radiant future.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Vintage Publishing
• Seitenzahl: 240
• Erscheinungstermin: 4. November 2010
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 196mm x 129mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 174g
• ISBN-13: 9780099529743
• ISBN-10: 0099529742
• Artikelnr.: 31285562

Autorenporträt

Andrey Platonovich Platonov (1899-1951) began publishing poems and articles in 1918, while studying engineering. Between 1927 and 1932 he wrote his most politically controversial works, some of them first published in Russian only in the 1990s. After reading his story 'For Future Use', Stalin referred to Platonov as 'an agent of our enemies'. From September 1942, after being recommended to the chief editor of Red Star by his friend Vasily Grossman, Platonov worked as a war correspondent. He died in 1951, of tuberculosis caught from his son, who had spent three years in the Gulag. Happy Moscow, one of his finest novels, was first published in Russia only in 1991; letters, notebook entries and unfinished stories continue to appear.