Andrei Platonov RU
1 September 1899
– 5 January 1951

Information
- Full Name
- Andrei Platonov
- Born
- 1 September 1899 Voronezh, Russian Empire
- Died
- 5 January 1951 Moscow, USSR
- Realm
- Russian
- Languages
- Russian
- 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
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...
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)...
“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...
- D. Rudnev. Review of Chevengur by Andrei Platonov
- Andrei Platonov