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The foundation pit / Andrey Platonov ; with notes and an afterword by Robert Chandler and Olga Meerson.

by Platonov, Andreĭ Platonovich, 1899-1951.

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New York Review Books, 2009.

Communist parties -- Fiction.

New York Review Books classics.

9781590173053 (trade pbk.)

1590173058 (trade pbk.)

Kotlovan. English English.

224 p. ; 21 cm.

"A new translation from the definitive Russian text by Robert Chandler, Elizabeth Chandler, Olga Meerson."

Translated from the Russian.

Includes bibliographical references.

In Andrey Platonov's The Foundation Pit, a team of workers has been given the job of digging the foundation of an immense edifice, a palatial home for the perfect future that, they are convinced, is at hand. But the harder the team works, the deeper they dig, the more things go wrong, and it becomes clear that what is being dug is not a foundation but an immense grave. The Foundation Pit is Platonov's most overtly political book, written in direct response to the staggering brutalities of Stalin's collectivization of Russian agriculture. It is also a literary masterpiece. Seeking to evoke unspeakable realities, Platonov deforms and transforms language in pages that echo both with the alienating doublespeak of power and the stark simplicity of prayer.

Russian fiction -- Translations into English.

Chandler, Robert, 1953-

Meerson, Ol�£ga.

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