Andrey platonov (93 Ergebnisse)

Paperback. Zustand: Good. An NYRB Classics Original Moscow Chestnova is a bold and glamorous girl, a beautiful parachutist who grew up with the Revolution. As an orphan, she knew tough times--but things are changing now. Comrade Stalin has proclaimed that "Life has become better! Life has become merrier!" and Moscow herself is poised to join the Soviet elite. But her ambitions are thwarted when a freak accident propels her flaming from the sky. A new, stranger life begins. Moscow drifts from man to man, through dance halls, all-night diners, and laboratories in which the secret of immortality is actively being investigated, exploring the endless avenues and vacant spaces of the great city whose name she bears, looking for happiness, somewhere, still.    Unpublishable during Platonov's lifetime, Happy Moscow first appeared in Russian only in 1991. This new edition contains not only a revised translation of Happy Moscow but several related works: a screenplay, a prescient essay about ecological catastrophe, and two short stories in which same characters reappear and the reader sees the mind of an extraordinary writer at work.…

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Paperback. Zustand: Very Good. Translated from the Russian by Robert & Elizabeth Chandler and Olga MeersonWith notes and an afterword by Robert Chandler and Olga Meerson 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. This English translation is the first and only one to be based on the definitive edition published by Pushkin House in Moscow. It includes extensive notes and, in an appendix, several striking passages deleted by Platonov. Robert Chandler and Olga Meerson's afterword discusses the historical context and style of Platonov's most haunted and troubling work. …

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Paperback. Zustand: Good. A sort of Soviet Don Quixote, this novel about a craftsman who wanders the U.S.S.R. hoping to ease human misery with his inventions is considered one of the most important novels of the Soviet era, and is now available in its full version in English for the first time. Chevengur is a revolutionary novel about revolutionary ardor and despair. Zakhar Pavlovich comes from a world of traditional crafts to work as a train mechanic, motivated by his belief in the transformative power of industry. His adopted son, Sasha Dvanov, embraces revolution, which will transform everything: the words we speak and the lives we live, souls and bodies, the soil underfoot and the sun overhead. Seeking communism, Dvanov joins up with Stepan Kopionkin, a warrior for the cause whose steed is the fearsome cart horse Strength of the Proletariat. Together they cross the steppe, encountering counterrevolutionaries, desperados, and visionaries of all kinds. At last they reach the isolated town of Chevengur. There communism is believed to have been achieved because everything that is not communism has been eliminated. And yet even in Chevengur the revolution recedes from sight.  Comic, ironic, grotesque, disturbingly poetic in its use of language, and profoundly sorrowful, Chevengur--here published in a new English translation based on the most authoritative Russian text--is the most ambitious of the extraordinary novels that the great Andrey Platonov wrote in the 1920s and 1930s, when Soviet Russia was moving from revolutionary euphoria to state terror. …

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Zustand: Very Good. reprint. Paperback, VG+. xxxviii+154pp, edges a little rubbed & page margins slightly tanned, otherwise a nice copy. The author's third & unfinsihed novel, which paints an unflattering picture of life in Stalin's 1930s Moscow. Andrei Platonovich Platonov [ 1899 - 1951 ] Soviet Russian novelist, his works banned until thirty years after his death due to their skeptical attitude toward Stalinist policies. 300 grams.…

Zustand: New. pp. [viii] + 224.

Paperback. Zustand: Like New. FIRST THUS. First Edition Thus, Fifth Printing. Published by Northwestern University Press, 1994. Octavo. Paperback. Book is like new with sticker on back cover. 100% positive feedback. 30 day money back guarantee. NEXT DAY SHIPPING! Excellent customer service. Please email with any questions. All books packed carefully and ship with free delivery confirmation/tracking. All books come with free bookmarks. Ships from Sag Harbor, New York.…

Paperback. Zustand: Brand New. 240 pages. 7.80x5.08x0.59 inches. In Stock.

Softcover. Zustand: New. Advanced Reader.

Zustand: New. 2010. Paperback. Describes the lives of a group of Soviet workers who believe they are laying the foundations for a radiant future. Translator(s): Chandler, Robert; Chandler, Elizabeth; Meerson, Olga. Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 130 x 16. Weight in Grams: 178. . . . . . Books ship from the US and Ireland. …

Paperback. Zustand: Brand New. 400 pages. 7.80x5.08x0.98 inches. In Stock.

Zustand: New. In English.

Zustand: New. 2013. Paperback. 'For the mind, everthing is in the future' Platonov once wrote; 'for the heart, everything is in the past'. The protagonist of Soul is a young man torn between these opposing desires, sent as a kind of missionary to bring the values of modern Russia to his childhood home town in Central Asia. Translator(s): Chandler, Robert; Chandler, Elizabeth; Meerson, Olga. Num Pages: 400 pages, 1 map (black and white). BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 160 x 198 x 25. Weight in Grams: 292. . . . . . Books ship from the US and Ireland.…