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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.
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.
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.
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