Tis is a no usual distopic novel,is rather a totalitarian based reality distopic novel. Saltykovshchredin searingly hot in the summer, bitterly cold in the winter, the ancestral estate of the golovlyov family is the end of the road. V nashu knigu voshli skazki volshebnoe koltso i umnaja vnuchka, kotorye pereskazal sovetskij pisatel i publitsist andrej platonov. His prose is very unusual, abounding in plentiful symbols that are sometimes not easy to fathom. It was the first largescale drama by chekhov, written specifically for maria yermolova, rising star of maly theatre. This dissertation aims to reconsider the work of the soviet russian writer. Andrei platonov pluhtawnawf, the pseudonym of andrei platonovich klimentov, was a fiction writer, dramatist, poet, and critic. Yermolova rejected the play and it was not published until 1923. It would be hard to imagine a writer who better embodied the ambitions and ambiguities, energies and tensions, of the first three decades of soviet literature than andrei platonov.
Andrey platonov primary author only author division. Media in category andrey platonov the following 9 files are in this category, out of 9 total. Andrei platonov has 106 books on goodreads with 26004 ratings. Kliemtov born on 1 september 1899 20 august, old style in voronezh. If platonov is a soviet writer, in the sense that his works always in some way originate in changes brought about by the. In 1920 changed his name to the name klimentov platonov.
Platonov had also begun writing poems, submitting them to papers in moscow and elsewhere, and he. His denunciation of the soviet bureaucracy led to severe rebuke by the stalinist authorities and the suppression of his work, rediscovered in the poststalin thaw. The foundation pit translated by robert and elizabeth. Mar 30, 20 stalin wrote scum in the margin of one of andrey platonovs surreal stories and told the editor to give him a good belting. Having begun his career in the 1920s writing among others literary criticism, platonov returns to the same genre again in the mid 1930s after having been pushed to the margins of belles lettres by the literary establishment. Platonov first visited central asia in 1934 as a member of a writers brigade. 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. Although platonov was a communist, his works were banned in his own lifetime for their skeptical attitude toward collectivization and other stalinist. He is viewed as one of the great outsiders of soviet literature. August 20, 1899 in voronezh, russian empire now russia died. Sholokhov, gorky, pasternak, and bulgakov all thought he was the bees knees. He studied at the parish school, then at a local school. The foundation pit is a dystopian work a distorted mirror image of the soviet production novel of the 1920s and 30s but it would be wrong to see platonov as an antisoviet writer or a satirist. Andrej platonov and the pragmatics of radical modernism.
Platonov, andrei article about platonov, andrei by the free. Born in 1899, he came of age with the revolution of october 1917, and remained a true believer in the soviet system, despite his many. Andrej platonov and the pragmatics of radical modernism dennis ioffe abstract the article discusses one of the possible ways to interpret platonovas oeuvre with regard to the avantgarde problematics of lifecreation, its pragmatics of action and expression. He graduated from the voronezh railroad polytechnicum in 1924. D 39 d particularly noteworthy is platonovs use of the religious term prelest or prels enie to describe the andrej platonov as literary critic 471 k orrosive. Andrej platonov and the pragmatics of radical modernism article in russian literature 73s 12. We recently updated our privacy policy to clarify how and why we collect personal data. In his mature works platonov described ordinary people living on the physical and emotional edge, and reversed. Born on august 20 september 1, ns in voronezh, in the family locksmith railway workshops klimentova.
Books by andrei platonov author of the foundation pit. Andrei platonov was one of the most original russian writers of the first half of the 20th century. Although platonov was a communist, his works were banned in his own lifetime for their skeptical. A hundred years of andrei platonov first volume of platonov special issue of. Andrei platonov in light of his conscious preoccupation with water over the. Master and margarita 196667 and andrey platonovs dark pictures of rural and semiurban russia, the foundation pit 1973 and chevengur 1972. But when andrei platonov died in poverty, misery and obscurity in 1951, no one would have. In recent decades, however, these lost works have reemerged, and the eerie poetry and poignant humanity of platonovs vision have become ever more clear. Andrei platonov books list of books by author andrei. The third son is among only a handful of works published in his lifetime. Andrej platonov and the inadmissibility of desire sciencedirect.
Power and the other in the dramatic works of andrei platonov jstor. Andrey platonov is currently considered a single author. Controversy exists about the actual date of birth, however, and some experts fix it at 28 august 16 august, old style. Andrei platonovs fluid antiutopia the university of. Andrei platonov was the pen name of andrei platonovich klimentov russian. Platonov was a soviet writer of the same generation as vasily grossman whose own genius has only recently been recognised.
Select any poster below to play the movie, totally free. Igor platonov 19341995, ukrainiansoviet chess grandmaster. One of the most remarkable discoveries is the work of andrey platonov. Andrei platonovich klimentov was born on 20 august 1 september 1899 into the family of a railroad mechanic in voronezh. The main characteristics distinguishing the work of the russian writer andrej platonovic platonov 18991951 are an individualized worldview and a typical writing style and language. It was the first largescale drama by chekhov, 1 written specifically for maria yermolova, rising star of maly theatre. Platonovs writing focuses on the threat industrialization poses to human and spiritual values. Platonovs father was a train engineer, metal worker, and a selftaught inventor. Journalist and prose writer nikolai leskov is known for his powerful characterizations and the quintessentially russian atmosphere of his stories. Petersburg until 1878 when he went to the department of history and philology of st.
Platonov was that rare thing, a proletarian writer. He was a student of konstantin bestuzhevryumin, who recommended that he be given the opportunity to prepare to be a professor. Happy moscow shows platonov as a master of language, weaving out of official names, political speeches, ideological exhortations and popular philosophical hopes a reality equal to the gut feel of soviet life in the 1930s. Authors personal copy platonov and collective authorship 61 the city gradov, first published in platonov s book epifanskie ljuzy. Andrej platonov, vero nomine andreas platonis filius klimentov russice, tr. The influence of christian philosophy on a soviet writer. Andrei platonovs most popular book is the foundation pit. If one or more works are by a distinct, homonymous authors, go ahead and split the author. He studied in moscow, then worked as a frontline journalist after the german invasion. Andrei platonov article about andrei platonov by the. He is the director general of the institute for the history of russian civilization, a moscowbased think tank. On imdb tv, you can catch hollywood hits and popular tv series at no cost. Although platonov was a communist, his works were banned in his own lifetime for their skeptical attitude toward collectivization and other stalinist policies.
After the liberation of kiev in 1943, ilya ehrenburg commissioned him to write an article for the black book a planned documentary account of the shoah on soviet soil about the massacre at babi yar, a ravine just outside the city. Without these peccadillos, platonov argues, ras epej vovse zivym by uletel na nebo, ina e govorja, obratilsja by v angela, ne to vrode besplotnoj poslosti. Platonov, or the disinherited is jay scheibs remix of the traditions of shakespeareinthepark, the ribald nostalgia of the driveinmovie, and the unpredictability of liveonlocationbroadcasting to create a new livecinema performance. Censored and supressed during his lifetime, platonov, who. Platonov, andrei article about platonov, andrei by the.
Volume 73, issues 12, 1 january15 february 20, pages 323340. The work and impact of the writer andrei platonov 18991951. Stalin wrote scum in the margin of one of andrey platonovs surreal stories and told the editor to give him a good belting. Oleg platonov project gutenberg selfpublishing ebooks. Platonov was born in chernigov and attended a private gymnasium in st.
Andrei platonov, august 28, 1899 january 5, 1951, was the pen name of andrei platonovich klimentov, a soviet author whose works anticipate existentialism. In recent decades, however, these lost works have reemerged, and the eerie poetry and poignant humanity of platonov s vision have become ever more clear. Platonov s father was a train engineer, metal worker, and a selftaught inventor. Andrei platonov 18991951, pen name of andrei platonovich klimentov, russian writer of the soviet period. Thriftbooks sells millions of used books at the lowest everyday prices.
The soviet writer andrey platonov saw much of his work suppressed or censored in his lifetime. As andrej platonov s reputation has grown ever more secure over the last. My dissertation, the late critical prose of andrej platonov, provides the first indepth study of andrej platonovs return to journalism in the 1930s and 40s. A companion to andrei platonovs the foundation pit on jstor. Literary critics are unanimous in their assessment that andrei platonov ranks among the. Named in memory of the writer andrej platonovich platonov 18991951. Andrei platonov books list of books by author andrei platonov.
Entwined with the soviet system and victims of it, this generation of writers lack the absoluteness of total suppression, which would allow their work to be discovered intact. The son of a railroad shop metalworker, platonov began working at the age of. We personally assess every books quality and offer rare, outofprint treasures. My dissertation, the late critical prose of andrej platonov, provides the first indepth study of andrej platonov s return to journalism in the 1930s and 40s. Andrei platonov, 28 august 1899 5 january 1951 was the pen name of andrei platonovich klimentov, a soviet author whose works anticipate existentialism. See all books authored by andrei platonov, including the foundation pit, and soul, and more on. Platonov appears to have begun working on chevengur, his only novel, as early as when he was still in tambov. Andrei platonov chevengur pdf stalin called him scum. Andrei platonov 18991951 pseudonym of andrei klimentov. The foundation pit portrays a group of workmen and local bureaucrats engaged in digging the. His achievements are many, but a commonplace shared by almost all critics and readers is that he is a difficult writer joseph brodsky famously compared him to joyce. Andrey platonov is the most exciting russian writer to be rediscovered since the end of the soviet union. In the early 1920s he changed his surname klimentov to platonov.
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