Andrei Platonov
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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)
- 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.
- 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]
