A companion to Andrei Platonov's The foundation pit / / Thomas Seifrid.

• Superior document: Studies in Russian and Slavic literatures, cultures and history
• VerfasserIn: Seifrid, Thomas,
• Place / Publishing House: Boston : : Academic Studies Press,, [2009]; ©2009
• Year of Publication: 2009
• Language: English
• Series: Studies in Russian and Slavic literatures, cultures and history.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (195 pages) :; illustrations.

Written at the height of Stalin's first "five-year plan" for the industrialization of Soviet Russia and the parallel campaign to collectivize Soviet agriculture, Andrei Platonov's The Foundation Pit registers a dissonant mixture of utopian longings and despair. Furthermore, it provides essential background to Platonov's parody of the mainstream Soviet "production" novel, which is widely recognized as one of the masterpieces of twentieth-century Russian prose. In addition to an overview of the work's key themes, it discusses their place within Platonov's oeuvre as a whole, his troubled relations with literary officialdom, the work's ideological and political background, and key critical responses since the work's first publication in the West in 1973.

Table of Contents

CHAPTER ONE. Platonov's Life -- CHAPTER TWO. Intellectual Influences on Platonov -- CHAPTER THREE. The Literary Context of The Foundation Pit -- CHAPTER FOUR. The Political Context of The Foundation Pit -- CHAPTER FIVE. The Foundation Pit Itself -- Index.