Fourteen Little Red Huts and Other Plays (Russian Library)

In this essential collection of Andrei Platonov's plays, the noted Platonov translator Robert Chandler edits and introduces The Hurdy-Gurdy (translated by Susan Larsen), Fourteen Little Red Huts (translated by Chandler), and Grandmother's Little Hut (translated by Jesse Irwin). Written in 1930 and 1933, respectively, The Hurdy-Gurdy and Fourteen Little Red Huts constitute an impassioned and penetrating response to Stalin's assault on the Soviet peasantry. They reflect the political urgency of Bertolt Brecht and anticipate the tragic farce of Samuel Beckett but play out through dialogue and characterization that is unmistakably Russian. This volume also includes Grandmother's Little Hut, an unfinished play that represents Platonov's later, gentler work.

Literature & Fiction

Platónov, Andrei

Dramas & Plays

Columbia University Press

In this essential collection of Andrei Platonov's plays, the noted Platonov translator Robert Chandler edits and introduces The Hurdy-Gurdy (translated by Susan Larsen), Fourteen Little Red Huts (translated by Chandler), and Grandmother's Little Hut (translated by Jesse Irwin). Written in 1930 and 1933, respectively, The Hurdy-Gurdy and Fourteen Little Red Huts constitute an impassioned and penetrating response to Stalin's assault on the Soviet peasantry. They reflect the political urgency of Bertolt Brecht and anticipate the tragic farce of Samuel Beckett but play out through dialogue and characterization that is unmistakably Russian. This volume also includes Grandmother's Little Hut, an unfinished play that represents Platonov's later, gentler work.

1970, Dutton, NY. Hardcover, 252-page short story collection. Translated into English by Joseph Barnes. The author, who died in 1951, wrote most of these stories prior to World War II. Because of political unrest in his native Russia, he was not well known in his own home country or abroad. Following his death, various collections of his work have appeared. The stories in this volume are selected from two volumes of his work which were published in the Soviet Union in 1965 and 1966.

The Fierce and Beautiful World

E.P.Dutton

Fierce, Fine World

Firebird Pubns

A beautiful girl travels over deserts and mountains in search of the handsome prince whom her sisters had injured.

Finist: The Falcon Prince (English and Russian Edition)

Children's Books

CarolRhoda Books

Text: English, Russian (translation)

Chevengur (English and Russian Edition)

Science Fiction & Fantasy

Fantasy

ARDIS

This is a title in the Bristol Classical Press Russian Texts series, in Russian with English notes, vocabulary and introduction. The influence of Andrey Platonov (1899-1951), a gifted writer of the Soviet era, has pervaded Soviet and Russian literature since the 1950s. "The River Potudan" (1937), should introduce the student of Russian to the complex thought and ideas that writers like Platonov, despite the severity of the times, were able, and brave enough, to convey. This story concerns a soldier returning from war, who with the support of a community of friends and family, builds a new life in Communist Russia. Complex issues are at stake: the hero has been emasculated by his experience; not harmony, but disintegration and alienation are characteristic of the Soviet society presented.

Platonov: The River Potudan (Russian Texts)

History & Criticism

Bristol Classical Press

The Foundation Pit

Contemporary

Harpercollins

Platonov's brilliant nightmarish novel describes the lives of a group of industrial workers who, in digging out the foundation pit for a huge commercial apartment block, really believe they are laying the foundations for the radiant future. Then some of them are ordered to kickstart 'collectivisation' (collective ownership of farming land) in a village of reluctant peasants, and what had begun in optimism quickly turns to hallucination and murder. Platonov shows his understanding of the dehumanising effects of Soviet jargon, shows how collectivisation led to the starvation of whole villages and the exile of whole populations and he succeeds in taking back control of language to serve vital purposes of communication and freedom.

Harvill Pr

People are on the move in all ten stories in this collection—coming home as in The Return, leaving home as in Rubbish Wind, traveling far away from their country as in The Locks of Epiphan—trying to improve their lives and those of others, searching and fleeing. Their journeys are accompanied by two motives, which characterize the writing of Andrey Platonov: optimism and faith in the goodness of humanity, and abject despair at the cruelty and apparent senselessness of our existence. The protagonists are torn between these poles and sometimes a synthesis shines through the blackness of despair—the hope against hope that a better life is still possible. Combining realism with poetic vision and the deceptively simple language of folktales, Platonov lights up his stories by using language in a way that renders it unfamiliar, making the ordinary seem unusual and the extraordinary logical. This new translation is the first to present Platonov's gift as a short-story writer to an English-language readership, showing why it is that Joseph Brodsky regarded Platonov as the equal of Joyce, Kafka, and Proust.

The Return and Other Stories

Literary

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Fourteen Little Red Huts and Other Plays (Russian Library)

Fourteen Little Red Huts and Other Plays (Russian Library)

The Fierce and Beautiful World

Fierce, Fine World

Finist: The Falcon Prince (English and Russian Edition)

Chevengur (English and Russian Edition)

Platonov: The River Potudan (Russian Texts)

The Foundation Pit

The Foundation Pit

The Return and Other Stories