Andrei Platonov

Andrei Platonov (Андрей Платонов, 28 August 1899 – 5 January 1951) was the pen name of Andrei Platonovich Klimentov (Андрей Платонович Климентов), a Soviet author whose works anticipate existentialism. Although Platonov was a Communist, his works were banned in his own lifetime for their skeptical attitude toward collectivization and other Stalinist policies. His famous works include the novels The Foundation Pit [Котлован] and Chevengur [Чевенгур].

Works

• Chevengur, Paris, 1972; repr. in Druzhba narodov [Дружба народов], 1988; repr., Sovremennik (Современник), 1988. (Russian)
  • Chevengur, trans. & forew. Anthony Olcott, Ann Arbor, MI: Ardis, 1978. (English)

• The Foundation Pit, trans. Mirra Ginsburg, New York: Dutton, 1975. (English)

• "Fabrika literatury (O koren. uluchshenii sposobov lit. tvorchestva)" [Фабрика литературы (О корен. улучшении способов лит. творчества)], in Vzyskaniye pogibshikh. Povesti. Rasskazy, Pyesa. Stati [Взыскание погибших. Повести. Рассказы, Пьеса. Статьи], Moscow, 1995; 2011. (Russian) [1]

Literature

• Thomas Seifrid, Andrei Platonov: Uncertainties of Spirit, Cambridge University Press, 1992.
• И.И. Матвеева, "«Фабрика литературы» А. Платонова как проект литературного «производства»", Vestnik 1 (2008), Moscow: MGOU, pp 82-87. (Russian)
• Chiara Mayer-Rieckh, Memory and Wholeness in the Work of Andrei Platonov, Valentin Rasputin and Andrei Tarkovskii, University College London, 2011, 297 pp. Ph.D. Dissertation.
• Dennis Ioffe, "Andrej Platonov and the Pragmatics of Radical Modernism", Russian Literature, 2013. [2]
• Tora Lane, Andrey Platonov: The Forgotten Dream of the Revolution, Lexington Books, 2018, 160 pp.
• Maria Chehonadskih, The Encyclopaedia of Poor Life: Andrei Platonov’s Philosophical Prose and Alexander Bogdanov’s Tektology, forthcoming. [3]

Links

• http://bookcents.blogspot.com/2013/02/andrei-platonov-and-chevengur-links.html