| A Companion to Andrei Platonov's the Foundation Pit Contributor(s): Seifrid, Thomas (Author) |
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ISBN: 1934843571 ISBN-13: 9781934843574 Publisher: Academic Studies Press OUR PRICE: $19.95 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: April 2009 Annotation: Written at the height of Stalin's first five-year plan for the industrialization of Soviet Russia and the parallel campaign to collectivize Soviet agriculture, Andrei Platonov's 'The Foundation Pit' parodies the mainstream Soviet "production" novel while recording the mixture of utopian longings and despair that formed his complex reponse to those events. In addition to providing an overview of the key themes in 'The Foundation Pit', this Companion discusses the literary and political contexts essential to the work's meanings, the place of 'The Foundation Pit' within Platonov's oeuvre as a whole, and the unique Russian idiom in which the work is composed. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Literary Criticism | Russian & Former Soviet Union - History | Russia & The Former Soviet Union - Literary Criticism | Books & Reading |
| Dewey: 891.734 |
| LCCN: 2009012603 |
| Series: Studies in Russian and Slavic Literatures, Cultures, and His |
| Physical Information: 0.43" H x 6.14" W x 9.21" (0.64 lbs) 204 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - Russia |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Written at the height of Stalin's first five-year plan for the industrialization of Soviet Russia and the parallel campaign to collectivize Soviet agriculture, Andrei Platonov's The Foundation Pit registers a dissonant mixture of utopian longings and despair. Furthermore, it provides essential background to Platonov's parody of the mainstream Soviet production novel, which is widely recognized as one of the masterpieces of twentieth-century Russian prose. In addition to an overview of the work's key themes, it discusses their place within Platonov's oeuvre as a whole, his troubled relations with literary officialdom, the work's ideological and political background, and key critical responses since the work's first publication in the West in 1973. |