Andrey Platonov

• Nov-1998
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• May-1999
• / Literary
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People are on the move in all ten stories in this collection -- coming home as in The Return, leaving home as in Rubbish Wind, traveling far away from their country as in The Locks of Epiphan -- trying to improve their lives and those of others, sear...

• Dec-2007
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TRANSLATED AND WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY ROBERT AND ELIZABETH CHANDLER 'For the mind, everthing is in the future' Platonov once wrote; 'for the heart, everything is in the past'. The protagonist of Soul is a young man torn between these opposing des...

• Apr-2009
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Translated from the Russian by Robert & Elizabeth Chandler and Olga Meerson
With notes and an afterword by Robert Chandler and Olga Meerson

In Andrey Platonov’s The Foundation Pit, a team of workers has been given the job of digging the f...

• Feb-2010
• / Literary
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Moscow in the 1930s is the consummate symbol of the Soviet paradise, a fairy-tale capital where, in Stalin’s words, �"life has become better, life has become merrier”. In Happy Moscow Platonov exposes the gulf between this premature triumphal­is...

• Nov-2023
• / Science Fiction
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A sort of Soviet Don Quixote, this novel about a craftsman who wanders the U.S.S.R. hoping to ease human misery with his inventions is considered one of the most important novels of the Soviet era, and is now available in its full version in Engli...

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