TY  - GEN
AU  - Seifrid,Thomas
TI  - A Companion to Andrei Platonov's "The Foundation Pit" : Studies in Russian and Slavic Literatures, Cultures and History
SN  - j.ctt1zxsjhv
PY  - 2009///0401
CY  - Boston, MA
PB  - Academic Studies Press
KW  - Literature: history & criticism
KW  - bicssc
KW  - Arts
KW  - Literary Criticism
KW  - Andrei Platonov
KW  - Collective farming
KW  - Joseph Stalin
KW  - Platonov (play)
KW  - Proletariat
KW  - Soviet Union
KW  - Utopia
N1  - Open Access
N2  - 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
UR  - https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/45615/3/641410.pdf
UR  - https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/45615/3/641410.pdf
UR  - https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/28288
ER  -