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, 1978–.
• "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.