Andrei Platonov
Uncertainties of Spirit
Part of Cambridge Studies in Russian Literature
- Author: Thomas Seifrid
- Date Published: November 2006
- availability: Available
- format: Paperback
- isbn: 9780521026758
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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 1992 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. He discusses how in Platonov's masterpieces of the late 1920s and early 1930s linguistic parody comes together with existential angst and dystopian doubts about the course of Soviet history. The study concludes with consideration of the works Platonov wrote from 1934 to 1951, in the age of socialist realism. In these, he manoeuvred to preserve some of the essentials of his earlier world view and verbal manner while fusing them to the literary formulae that were expected of him.
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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- 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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