Memory and wholeness in the work of andrei platonov. Platonov early works, poetry, novels of the late 1920s and novel chevengur, works of the 1930s the ditch, jan, military and postwar creativity, the main properties of the artistic world of ap platonov the most characteristic types of heroes of. He began to publish poems and stories in the 1920s and worked as a land reclamation expert in central russia, where he was a witness to the ravages of the great famine. The most striking quality of the novel seems to be what thomas seifrid calls hermeneutic ambivalence seifrid 103. The foundation pit translated by robert and elizabeth. Platonovs writing focuses on the threat industrialization poses to human and spiritual values. Andrei platonov 18991951 was mercilessly hounded by soviet authorities. The year 1934, his thirtyfifth, was a significant watershed in the life of andrei platonov. Utopia, dystopia, and community john riser, florida gulf coast university introduction while this essay recapitulates various wellknown events and works in the development of andrei platonov s views from utopian communism through disillusioned cynicism to what i will. For the most part, russian and western literary scholars have concentrated on the major works of platonov, such as chevengur chevengur, 1928, kotlovan. Andrei platonovs face, looking out from one of his last photographs, is the face of a tired russian worker.
Jun 26, 2019 v nashi dni andrei platonov po pravu zanial mesto vedushchego klassika. But besides them there were many significant works. Andrey platonovich platonov 18991951 began publishing poems and articles in 1918, while studying engineering. 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. Platonov appears to have begun working on chevengur, his only novel, as early as when he was still in tambov. Although platonov was a communist, his works were banned in his own lifetime for their skeptical attitude toward collectivization and other stalinist policies. Andrei platonov, on the first socialist tragedy, nlr 69. Utopia, dystopia, and community john riser, florida gulf coast university introduction while this essay recapitulates various wellknown events and works in the development of andrei platonovs views from utopian communism through disillusioned cynicism to what i will. Although platonov was a communist, his works were banned in his own lifetime for their skeptical attitude toward collectivization and. 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.
Kliemtov born on 1 september 1899 20 august, old style in voronezh. Baffler newsletter new email subscribers receive a free copy of our current issue. Soviet readers knew him mainly for a few short stories and, above all, his semisatirical account of collectivization, for future use. Chevengur, the country of unreal communism the october. Andrey platonov 18991951, the son of a metalworker and the eldest of ten children, was born in a village near the russian town of voronezh. This isnt meant to be a comprehensive list of whats available on one or the other.
Sep 07, 2019 andrei platonov chevengur pdf stalin called him scum. Andrei platonov, on the first socialist tragedy, nlr 69, may. See all formats and editions hide other formats and editions. Andrei platonov immortality after midnight, on the approach to red peregon station, the fd locomotive began to shout and weep. Andrei platonov pluhtawnawf, the pseudonym of andrei platonovich klimentov, was a fiction writer, dramatist, poet, and critic. Andrei platonov 18991951, pen name of andrei platonovich klimentov, russian writer of the soviet period. Chevengur english and russian edition russian hardcover june 1, 1978 by andrei platonov author 5. Reading andrei platonov modern humanities research. Andrei platonov download ebook pdf, epub, tuebl, mobi. The plot of the novel concerns a group of workers living in the early soviet union. The new yorker ran a short story of platonov s a few years ago. May 01, 2019 v nashi dni andrei platonov po pravu zanial mesto vedushchego klassika. Andrei platonov chevengur pdf stalin called him scum.
Oct 19, 2019 v nashi dni andrei platonov po pravu zanial mesto vedushchego klassika. Andrey platonov s bleak vision of the central asian desert, soul, has been brought back to life by robert chandlers team of translators david isaacson. Platonovs writing focuses on the threat industrialization poses to human and spiri. Andrei platonovs fluid antiutopia the university of.
Controversy exists about the actual date of birth, however, and some experts fix it at 28 august 16 august, old style. World heritage encyclopedia, the aggregation of the largest online encyclopedias available, and the. Aug 20, 2019 andrei platonov chevengur pdf stalin called him scum. Soviet readers knew him mainly for a few short stories and, above all, his semi. Platonov, andrei article about platonov, andrei by the free. See all books authored by andrei platonov, including the foundation pit, and soul, and more on. A companion to andrei platonovs the foundation pit oapen. This ambivalence touches the most general level of reader response. Sholokhov, gorky, pasternak, and bulgakov all thought he was the bees knees. The expression of philosophical ideas in platonov s prose 67 part two. Andrei platonov was the pen name of andrei platonovich klimentov, a soviet author whose works anticipate existentialism. Between 1927 and 1932 he wrote his most politically controversial works, some of them first published in the soviet union only in the late 1980s. Mar 31, 2020 andrei platonov chevengur pdf stalin called him scum.
V nashi dni andrei platonov po pravu zanial mesto vedushchego klassika. He served in the workers and peasants red army and took part in the civil war as a military correspondent. His early writings, such as the novel the city of gradov 1927, satirized communist bureaucracy and pitted machinery against nature. Platonovs working class characters all speak in the approved slogans and jargon of the time, but they make mincemeat of this official language, denaturing it and recomposing its ideological force. Platonov appears to have begun working on chevengur, his only novel, as early as 1926 when he was still in tambov. Im going to try and post on andrei platonov s chevengur later this week but wanted to pass on some links i enjoyed related to the author andor the work. Andrei platonov chevengur pdf search for happiness. In his mature works platonov described ordinary people living on. The writer we know as andrei platonov was born andrei platonovich. It has not a trace of affectation, no hint of what is called artistic temperament, no monumental profundity, no oracular brilliance in the eyes.
The sources of fedorovs influence on platonov 61 ii. Platonov s the foundation pit is a satirical response to stalins programme of crash industrialisation and collectivisation. In this essential collection of andrei platonov s plays, the noted platonov translator robert chandler edits and introduces the hurdygurdy translated by susan larsen, fourteen little red huts translated. Andrei platonov was the pen name of andrei platonovich klimentov russian. The influence of andrey platonov 18991951, a gifted writer of the soviet era, has pervaded soviet and russian literature since the 1950s. Andrei platonov on youtube, which includes animated adaptations of some of his stories and an interview with aleksandr solzhenitsyn. Platonov s father was a train engineer, metal worker, and a selftaught inventor. The foundation pit portrays a group of workmen and local bureaucrats engaged in digging the. It was the first largescale drama by chekhov, 1 written specifically for maria yermolova, rising star of maly theatre. Since the collapse of the soviet union, there has been a steady flow of new platonov texts. He is viewed as one of the great outsiders of soviet literature. The third son is among only a handful of works published in his lifetime. Chevengur and the utopian genre chapter 3 andrei platonov.
Andrei platonov books list of books by author andrei platonov. Andrei platonov was born andrei klimentov on september 1, 1899. 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. Mar 01, 2020 v nashi dni andrei platonov po pravu zanial mesto vedushchego klassika. Master and margarita 196667 and andrey platonov s dark pictures of rural and semiurban russia, the foundation pit 1973 and chevengur 1972. The river potudan 1937, should introduce the student of russian to the complex thought and ideas that writers like platonov, despite the severity of the times, were able, and brave enough, to convey. His famous works include the novels the foundation pit and chevengur. As a young writer, andrey adopted the pseudonym platonov, a short form of his patronymic. He produced his two major works, the novels chevengur and the foundation pit, between 1926 and. Jul 17, 2019 v nashi dni andrei platonov po pravu zanial mesto vedushchego klassika. Andrey platonov is the most exciting russian writer to be rediscovered since the end of the soviet union. Andrei platonov, whose list of works is well known to every schoolboy, became famous after the novels the pit and chevengur. Andrei platonov 18991951 after studying this chapter, the student must.
Chevengur 1929 and his masterpiece the foundation pit 1930, remained unpublished until the relaxation of censorship in the glasnost period of the late 1980s. Novokhopersk was surrounded by dry ground, except for the approach from the river, which was all. Guardian platonov s writing can retain enormous power in englishthe foreign reader can also now begin to get an idea of the shape of platonov s development as a writer. Andrei platonov 18991951, creative biography and the. Novokhopersk had been occupied by the cossacks while aleksandr dvanov was on his way there, but the detachment of nekhvoraiko the teacher had managed to push them out of the town. The foundation pit is a gloomy symbolic and semisatirical novel by andrei platonov. Introducing andrei platonov by yevgeny yevtushenko the.
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. But when andrei platonov died in poverty, misery and obscurity in 1951, no one would have. In his mature works platonov described ordinary people living on the physical and emotional edge, and reversed. 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. Andrei platonov, august 28, 1899 january 5, 1951, was the pen name of andrei platonovich klimentov, a soviet author whose works anticipate existentialism. White, boston university andrei platonov s novel chevengur is marked, on a variety of levels, by paradoxes and aporias. Andrei platonov read the authors books online bookmate. Chevengur got as far as being typeset before being rejected. He had already written the foundation pit and chevengur, the novels for which he is today best known, but neither had been published in full.
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