The Foundation Pit (European Classics)
by Andrey Platonov
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Author: Andrey PlatonovTranslator: Mirra Ginsburg
Introduction: Mirra Ginsburg
Edition: Paperback
Audio: English (Original Language); English (Unknown); English (Published)
Published: 1994-06-08
ISBN: 0810111454
Number of pages: 141
Publisher: Northwestern University Press
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Book Review: The finest of the anti-utopian fables written this century
Summary: 5 Stars
Platonov is now seen by many Russians as their greatest prose-writer of the century. Certainly no one in Russia has used language more creatively. If he does not yet enjoy the reputation he deserves in the West, it is simply because he is extraordinarily difficult to translate.In some ways this novel anticipates the work of Samuel Beckett. Eileen Battersby has referred to it in The Irish Times as 'a classic of passionate subversion'. 'Far more subtle than either Zamyatin's 'We' of Orwell's '1984', 'The Foundation Pit' is extraordinary: strange, almost abrupt, a hallucinatory, nightmarish parable of hysterical laughter and terrifying silences.'
No one who wishes to understand what has happened in Russia this century can afford not to read this novel.
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