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

• Co nám jde k duhu, trans. Anna Nováková, Prague: Odeon, 1966, 192 pp; repr., Prague: Městská knihovna v Praze, 2022. Trans. of satirical prose: "Kterak Makar zapochyboval", "Město Gradov", "Co nám jde k duhu". (Czech)

• The Fierce and Beautiful World. Stories, trans. Joseph Barnes, intro. Yevgeny Yevtushenko, New York: Dutton, 1970, 252 pp. Incl. "Dzhan", "Fro", "The Potudan River", "Homecoming", "The Third Son", "Aphrodite", "The Fierce and Beautiful World". (English)
  • 美好而粗暴的世界, 上海译文出版社, 2022, EPUB. (Chinese)

• 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)
  • Čevengur, trans. Anna Nováková, Prague: Argo, 1995, 448 pp. (Czech)
  • Tαξίδι με ανοιχτή καρδιά, Λιβάνης, 1996. (Greek)
  • Cevengur, Editura All, 2012. (Italian)
  • Tchevengur, Ars et Vita, 2022. (Portuguese)

• The Foundation Pit, trans. Mirra Ginsburg, New York: Dutton, 1975. (English)
  • with Natalja Dužinová, Jáma / Průvodce Jámou, trans. Bruno Solařík, Dauphin, 2022, 360 pp. [1] (Czech)

• Collected Works, pref. Joseph Brodsky, trans. Thomas P. Whitney, Carl R. Proffer, Alexey A. Kiselev, Marion Jordan, and Friederike Snyder, Ardis, 1978. (English)

• Schastlivaya Moskva [Счастливая Москва] [1936], 1991. (Russian)
  • Happy Moscow, trans. Robert and Elizabeth Chandler, intro. Eric Naiman, London: Harvill, 2001. (English)
  • Šťastná Moskva, trans. Alena Machoninová, ills. Juraj Horváth, Prague: Baobab, 2022, 176 pp. [2] (Czech)
  • Moscova Cea Fericita Si Alte Nuvele, 2014. (Romanian)

• "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) [3]

• Soul and Other Stories, Vintage, 2013. (English)

• Fourteen Little Red Huts and Other Plays, ed. Robert Chandler, Columbia University Press, 2017, 244 pp, EPUB. (English)

Literature

• Thomas Seifrid, Andrei Platonov: Uncertainties of Spirit, Cambridge University Press, 1992. (English)

• И.И. Матвеева, "«Фабрика литературы» А. Платонова как проект литературного «производства»", Vestnik 1 (2008), Moscow: MGOU, pp 82-87. (Russian)

• Thomas Seifrid, A Companion to Andrei Platonov's the Foundation Pit, Academic Studies Press, 2009, 204 pp. (English)

• Georg Witte, "Between the Forge and the Assembly Line: The Time of the Tool in the Work of Andrei Platonov", Configurations 18:3, Johns Hopkins University Press, Fall 2010, pp 345-362. [4] (English)

• Chiara Mayer-Rieckh, Memory and Wholeness in the Work of Andrei Platonov, Valentin Rasputin and Andrei Tarkovskii, London: University College London, 2011, 297 pp. PhD dissertation.

• Dennis Ioffe, "Andrej Platonov and the Pragmatics of Radical Modernism", Russian Literature 73:1-2, Jan-Feb 2013, pp 323-340. [5]

• McKenzie Wark, Molecular Red: Theory for the Anthropocene, London: Verso, 2015, xxiv+280 pp.
  • translations

• Maria Chehonadskih, Soviet Epistemologies and the Materialist Ontology of Poor Life: Andrei Platonov, Alexander Bogdanov and Lev Vygotsky, London: Kingston University, 2017, 273 pp. PhD dissertation.

• 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. [6]

Links

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