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Books Puddle From: A copy that has been read but remains intact. (2002), ISBN 10: 0571210511ISBN 13: 9780571210510, About this Item: Faber & Faber, Incorporated, 2002.

Chess Information & Research Center, New York, NY What’s worse, his fifteen-year-old son Platon was arrested on false charges and sent to the Gulag. Platonov's The Foundation Pit is a satirical response to Stalin's programme of crash industrialisation and collectivisation." Schutzumschlag mit Gebrauchsspuren, aber vollständigen Seiten. Translation. Condition: Very Good.

May show signs of minor shelf wear and contain limited notes and highlighting.

Translated and adapted by Alex Szogyi. (2012), ISBN 10: 1889323268ISBN 13: 9781889323268, From: | Contact this seller Shows some signs of wear, and may have some markings on the inside. About this Item: Faber & Faber. I was more than halfway through the book before I found them. 11. The Foundation Pit is extraordinary: strange, almost abrupt, a hallucinatory, nightmarish parable of hysterical laughter and terrifying silences." Then you can start reading Kindle books on your smartphone, tablet, or computer - no Kindle device required.

— Publishers Weekly In Russia it is Platonov who is increasingly described as the best writer of the post-revolutionary epoch. Condition: Very Good. A Country Scandal (Platonov) (Paperback or Softback).
Dust cover is intact; pages are clean and are not marred by notes or folds of any kind. Pages and cover are clean and intact. Hill & Wang, New York, 1966. Unlike most of his peers, such as Isaak Babel, Yury Olesha, Evgeny Zamyatin, Mikhail Bulgakov and Mikhail Zoshchenko, who chose to play with the malleability of language, Platonov resigned himself to the raw language of his era, sometimes sacrificing the intricacies of plot and stylistic twists. Readers of the world get organized! (2001), From: (2002), About this Item: Faber & Faber, 2002. Joseph Brodsky gaat zelfs nog verder: hij vindt Platonov minstens de evenknie en misschien nog wel groter dan Kafka, Joyce, Musil of Beckett.

Paperback. More information about this seller Covers rubbed & lightly scratched; sticker remnants bottom rear cover; small crease top front cover.

S talin called him scum.

Seller Inventory # SB20B-01948.

Dover Publications, 2016. Pages are intact and are not marred by notes or highlighting, but may contain a neat previous owner name.

–The National Post, "Nearly all his work is rooted in a particular place and time, and it is hard to think of another writer who so expertly animated the sadness and unease of the Soviet period. Text is free of markings.

| Contact this seller Pages and cover are clean and intact. Platonov’s brilliant short works can be sampled in the collection Soul, also published by NYRB.” —The Millions"Andrey Platonov has not yet received the attention he richly deserves here...[he] turns out to be one of the finest writers of the 20th century, worthy to stand alongside Kafka and Joyce."

Condition: Fine. It may have marks on or in it, and may show other signs of previous use or shelf wear. | Contact this seller Paperback.

Platonov's charm lies in his novelty, and his seductions are strictly passive as a libidinous widow, her idealistic stepdaughter, and an earnest student vie for his romantic attentions. The eldest of eleven children, he began work at the age of thirteen, first in an office, then in a factory, and finally as an engine driver’s assistant. (AURORA, IL, U.S.A.), About this Item: Dover Publications, Incorporated. The Foundation Pit distresses the Russian language, showing it splayed and shattered by the demands of revolution.

–The Observer (London), "Andrey Platonov is the most exciting Russian writer to be rediscovered since the end of the Soviet Union. More information about this seller After graduating from a polytechnical institute, he worked as an electrical engineer, introducing electricity into local agriculture in the wake of the deadly drought, which struck Povolzhye in 1921. Like his fellow science-fiction writer Yevgeny Zamyatin - author of the astonishing futurist novel We, published in the 20s - he was also among that tortured country's most prescient literary artists...The Foundation Pit, written in 1930 and now published for the first time in English, is his most striking attempt to convey the extreme estrangement suffered by ordinary people as collectivisation in agriculture proceeded across the USSR...one of the most prophetic nihilistic tales of this ruined century." Following in his father’s footsteps, the teen worked as an engineer’s assistant for the South-Eastern railway, a symbol of Soviet industrial might at the time.

Paperback. Platonov's books are still being unearthed in Russia decades after his death."

Seller Inventory # 0486811166_abe_bn. Adapted and translated by Alex Szogyi, it offers the trenchant wit and rich characterizations typical of the dramatist's later works.

This dualism was dangerous, and eventually cost Platonov his career. 128 pages.

Spine not compromised.

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It’s one of those books you’ll have to read again and again to understand the idea behind it.

According to the late Joseph Brodsky, Platonov 'simply had a tendency to see his words to their logical - that is absurd, that is totally paralyzing end. Please try again. | Contact this seller 13. Condition: Good. Even if one considers Platonov's masterpiece merely as a conte philosophique, one may note that his model universe was more amply observed than Voltaire's. Several of his stories of the 1920s featured starving and impoverished peasant characters.

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The Foundation Pit, written at the time of the brutal collectivization campaign of the late 1920s, plays out an image of equally brutal directness–a construction site on which nothing ever gets built. Great condition for a used book!

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Paperback. Faber & Faber, 2002. Seller Inventory # OTF-S-9780486811161. From:

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12. –The Times (London), "In Russian writer Andrei Platonov's novel The Foundation Pit, written in 1930 but not published in Russia until 1987, the characters must struggle not only with the interminable Soviet works project of the title, but with strange spiritual maladies...One of the most deeply original writers of the 20th century." Unable to add item to List. The author isn’t called the master of “socialist realism” for nothing. More information about this seller Condition: New.

Lakeside Books Like many other young people of his generation, Platonov welcomed the Revolution of October 1917 with palpable enthusiasm.

Dover Publications (Wilmington, DE, U.S.A.), About this Item: Paperback. Published by Text is free of markings. [2] Yermolova rejected the play and it was not published until 1923.

Chekhov, Anton Pavlovich/ Szogyi, Alex (trn), From: .

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Stunning marvelous book! Used items may not include supplementary materials such as CDs or access codes. 28. Has little wear to the cover and pages. Paperback or Softback. | Contact this seller Paperback. More information about this seller

Condition: Good. Dover Publications, 2016. Platonov depicts hunger and death as he portrays workers, engineers and peasants exempt from all the good feelings as they continue their never-ending work and stagger around like empty-minded zombies from George Romero’s horror movies. 0.227. You have to search in the back of the text for the endnotes, which are listed by page number. His fiction, at its best, has the timeless quality of parable or folklore." Spine not compromised. | Contact this seller


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