Andrei Platonov
Uncertainties of Spirit
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Part of Cambridge Studies in Russian Literature
- Author: Thomas Seifrid
- Date Published: November 2006
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The Soviet writer Andrei Platonov (1899-1951) belongs to a Russian philosophical tradition that includes such figures as Vladimir Solov'ev, Mikhail Bakhtin, and Boris Pasternak. This study investigates the interrelation of themes, imagery, and the use of language in his prose. Thomas Seifrid shows how Platonov was particularly influenced by Russian utopian thought of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, and how his world view was also shaped by its implicit dialogue with the "official" Soviet philosophy of Marxism-Leninism, and later with Stalinist utopianism.
Read more- Was the first study in English of Platonov, an important Soviet writer of the twenties and thirties
- It shows how his writing developed as he was influenced first by nineteenth-century Russian thought, then by Marxism-Leninism, Stalinist utopianism, and socialist realism
- Platonov belongs to the same philosophical tradition as Pasternak and Bakhtin
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"This book is a very welcome addition to Platonov studies, utopian studies, and the study of early twentieth-century Russian intellectual history. Building on a number of previous works, Seifrid does a convincing job synthesizing the literary and philosophical currents within which this writer, so unique and difficult to place, should be interpreted....this is a very valuable addition that, it is hoped, will encourage inclusion of Platanov in syllabi of courses and seminars on utopia." Utopian Studies
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- Date Published: November 2006
- format: Paperback
- isbn: 9780521026758
- length: 292 pages
- dimensions: 215 x 138 x 20 mm
- weight: 0.384kg
- availability: Available
Table of Contents
Preface
List of abbreviations
Introduction: the problem of reading Platonov
1. Consciousness and matter: Platonov in Voronezh and Tambov (1917–26)
2. Learning the language of being (1926–7)
3. Chevengur and the utopian genre
4. Platonov and the culture of the Five-Year Plan (1929–31)
5. 'Socialist Realist' Platonov (1934–51)
Conclusion
Notes
Select bibliography
Index.
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