TY  - BOOK
AU  - Seifrid,Thomas
TI  - A Companion to Andrei Platonov's "The Foundation Pit": Studies in Russian and Slavic Literatures, Cultures and History 
SN  - 9781618116970
PB  - Academic Studies Press
KW  - Literary Criticism / Russian & Former Soviet Union
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - Literature
KW  - History and criticism
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - Access copy available to the general public
N2  - 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
UR  - https://openresearchlibrary.org/content/7049b32c-7d02-4061-8156-417a361735e6
ER  -