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The fierce and beautiful world : stories / Andrei Platonov ; translated by Joseph Barnes ; introduction by Tatyana Tolstoya.
Van Pelt Library PG3476.P543 A23 2000
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Platonov, Andreĭ Platonovich, 1899-1951.
- Series:
- New York Review Books classics
- Standardized Title:
- Short stories. Selections. English
- Language:
- English
- Russian
- Subjects (All):
- Platonov, Andreĭ Platonovich, 1899-1951--Translations into English.
- Platonov, Andreĭ Platonovich.
- Platonov, Andreĭ Platonovich, 1899-1951.
- Soviet Union--Social life and customs--Fiction.
- Soviet Union.
- Manners and customs.
- Genre:
- Fiction.
- Physical Description:
- xvii, 264 pages ; 21 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : New York Review Books, 2000.
- Language Note:
- Translated from the Russian.
- Summary:
- Like so many Soviet writers, Andrei Platonov saw his work suppressed in his lifetime. Since then, however, it has established itself, both at home and abroad, as an extraordinary and haunting achievement of twentieth-century literature. For Nadezhda Mandelstam and Joseph Brodsky, Platonov was the writer who most profoundly registered the spiritual ravages of Soviet life. For a new generation of experimental Russian writers he figures as a remarkable linguistic innovator, the master of what has been called "alternative realism." Lyrical, strange, yet sharply concrete, Platonov's fiction is that of a wanderer in an all-too-real Utopia, a devastated world that is both terrifying and sublime.
- This collection of Platonov's short fiction brings together seven works drawn from the whole of his career. It includes the harrowing, and long-unavailable, novella Dzahn, in which a young man returns to his Asian birthplace to find his people deprived not only of food and dwelling, but of memory and speech, and "The Potudan River," Platonov's most celebrated story.
- Contents:
- Dzhan
- Fro
- The Potudan River
- Homecoming
- The third son
- Aphrodite
- The fierce and beautiful world.
- Notes:
- Originally published: New York : E.P. Dutton, 1970.
- ISBN:
- 0940322331
- OCLC:
- 42435006
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