Buy The Foundation Pit by Platonov, Andrei, Chandler, Robert from Amazon's Fiction Books Store. Everyday low prices on a huge range of new releases and classic fiction. The Foundation Pit: bltadwin.ru: Platonov, Andrei, Chandler, Robert: BooksReviews: · In , New York Review Books reissued a collection of Platonov's work including the novella Soul (), the short story "The Return" (), and six other stories. [2] This was followed by a reissue of The Foundation Pit in , [3] and in by Happy Moscow, an unfinished novel (not published in Platonov's lifetime). The Foundation Pit by Andrei Platonov (Octo) on bltadwin.ru *FREE* shipping on qualifying offers. The Foundation Pit by Andrei Platonov (Octo).
ANDREI PLATONOV THE FOUNDATION PIT PDF. The Foundation Pit (New York Review Books Classics) [Andrey Platonov, Robert Chandler, Elizabeth Chandler, Olga Meerson] on *FREE*. 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. Written at. The Foundation Pit. August 1, Spinozablue. Moscow, by Wassily Kandinsky. One of the most magical and strange books of the 20th Century is Andrei Platonov's The Foundation Pit. It is magical and strange both in its execution and context. His context being something we can barely imagine, living in the West, living in the 21st Century. The Foundation Pit is a dystopian work - a distorted mirror image of the Soviet 'production novel' of the s and '30s - but it would be wrong to see Platonov as an anti-Soviet writer or a satirist.
In Andrey Platonov’s The Foundation Pit, a team of workers has been given the job of digging the foundation of an immense edifice, a palatial home for the perfect future that, they are convinced, is at hand. But the harder the team works, the deeper they dig, the more things go wrong, and it becomes clear that what is being dug is not a foundation but an immense grave. Andrew Platonov's The Foundation Pit is a brutal novel. He shatters any illusions one might have about the virtues of Soviet communism. Platonov's deadpan style makes the hunger and death he depicts that much more empty. The Foundation Pit (Russian: Котлован, kotlovan) is a gloomy symbolic and semi-satirical novel by Andrei Platonov. The plot of the novel concerns a group of workers living in the early Soviet Union. They attempt to dig out a huge foundation pit on the base of which a gigantic house will be built for the country's proletarians.
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