Andrei Platonov RU

1899 September 1 – 1951 January 5
Andrei Platonov
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Full Name
Andrei Platonov
Born
1899 September 1 Voronezh, Russian Empire
Died
1951 January 5 Moscow, USSR
Realm
Russian
Languages
Russian
Eduard Limonov. What They Read in Moscow
Andrei Platonov
Paratext 1975
Eduard Limonov. What They Read in Moscow
Andrei Platonov
Venedikt Erofeev is probably the most popular underground prose writer. His novel “Moskva-Petushki” in the years 1970-1973 has circulated all around Russia (naturally, in “samizdat”). Erofeev is 36 years old. “Moskva-Petushki” is his first novel...
Thomas H. Hoisington. Review of Chevengur by Andrei Platonov
Andrei Platonov
Review 1979
Thomas H. Hoisington. Review of Chevengur by Andrei Platonov
Andrei Platonov
 Chevengur is a remote steppe village where total communism has been organized, where, as one character observes, we did everything first and then read Marx. As a result, life has become much less civilized than it was before the Revolution...
Richard L. Chapple. Review of Chevengur and Collected Works by Andrei Platonov
Andrei Platonov
Review 1979
Richard L. Chapple. Review of Chevengur and Collected Works by Andrei Platonov
Andrei Platonov
The student of Soviet literature and particularly the devotee of Soviet satire cannot but enthusiastically mark the appearance of translations of the prose of Andrej Platonov (1889- 1951)...
Thomas H. Hoisington. Review of Collected Works by Andrei Platonov
Andrei Platonov
Review 1979
Thomas H. Hoisington. Review of Collected Works by Andrei Platonov
Andrei Platonov
“Selected Works” would be a better title for this volume. Included are ten short stories, a three-act play The Barrel Organ, and“The Foundation Pit...
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