This book traces the originality of Andrey Platonov's vision of the
Revolution in readings of his works. It has been common in Platonov
scholarship to measure him within the parameters of a political pro
et contra the October Revolution and Soviet society, but the
proposal of this book is to look for the way in which the writer
continuously asked into the disastrous aspects of the
implementation of a new proletarian community for what they could
tell us about the promise of the Revolution to open up the
experience of the world as common. In readings of selected works by
Andrei Platonov I follow the development of his chronicle of
revolutionary society, and from within it the outline of the
forgotten utopian dream of a common world. I bring Platonov into a
dialogue with certain questions that arise from the philosophy of
Martin Heidegger and that were later re-addressed in the works of
Maurice Blanchot, Georges Bataille and Jean-Luc Nancy, related to
the experience of the modern world in terms of communality,
groundlessness, memory, interiority. I show that Platonov writes
the Revolution as an implementation of common being in society that
needs to retrieve the forgotten memory of what being in common
means.
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