A Companion to Andrei Platonov's "The Foundation Pit"
Object category:
Elektronische Ressource
Person/Institution:
Publisher:
Academic Studies Press
Place of publication:
Boston, MA
Date:
2009
Extent, illustration, format:
1 Online-Ressource
Language:
Englisch
Providing institution:
Additional information
Abstract:
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
Object text:
eng
Access and usage options
Contact
Universität Erfurt
Forschungsbibliothek Gotha
Schloss Friedenstein
Schlossplatz 1
99867 Gotha
+49 361 737-5540
bibliothek.gotha(at)uni-erfurt.de
Forschungsbibliothek Gotha
Schloss Friedenstein
Schlossplatz 1
99867 Gotha
+49 361 737-5540
bibliothek.gotha(at)uni-erfurt.de
Administrative details
Created:
2023-04-12
Last changed:
2023-02-17
Added to portal:
2023-04-12
Feedback
Our data sets are in constant development. If you have additional information about this object or discovered an error, please write to us. Information on privacy policy