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Chevengur
Andrey Platonov; Translated by Robert Chandler, Elizabeth Chandler
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Chevengur (Paperback)
Andrey Platonov; Translated by Robert Chandler, Elizabeth Chandler
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A celebrated masterpiece available in its full version in English
for the first time. A Soviet Don Quixote from one of the greatest
20th-century prose writers, author of The Foundation Pit and Soul.
Translated by Robert Chandler and Elizabeth Chandler
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Soul - And Other Stories (Paperback)
Andrey Platonov; Translated by Robert Chandler; Introduction by Robert Chandler; Afterword by John Berger; Translated by Olga Meerson
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A New York Review Books Original
The Soviet writer Andrey Platonov saw much of his work suppressed
or censored in his lifetime. In recent decades, however, these lost
works have reemerged, and the eerie poetry and poignant humanity of
Platonov's vision have become ever more clear. For Nadezhda
Mandelstam and Joseph Brodsky, Platonov was the writer who most
profoundly registered the spiritual shock of revolution. For a new
generation of innovative post-Soviet Russian writers he figures
as a daring explorer of word and world, the master of what has been
called "alternative realism." Depicting a devastated world that is
both terrifying and sublime, Platonov is, without doubt, a
universal writer who is as solitary and haunting as Kafka.
This volume gathers eight works that show Platonov at his
tenderest, warmest, and subtlest. Among them are "The Return,"
about an officer's difficult homecoming at the end of World War II,
described by Penelope Fitzgerald as one of "three great works of
Russian literature of the millennium"; "The River Potudan," a
moving account of a troubled marriage; and the title novella, the
extraordinary tale of a young man unexpectedly transformed by his
return to his Asian birthplace, where he finds his people deprived
not only of food and dwelling, but of memory and speech.
This prizewinning English translation is the first to be based on
the newly available uncensored texts of Platonov's short fiction.
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The Foundation Pit (Paperback)
Andrey Platonov; Translated by Robert Chandler, Elizabeth Chandler, Olga Meerson
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TRANSLATED BY ROBERT AND ELIZABETH CHANDLER AND OLGA MEERSON
Platonov's dystopian novel describes the lives of a group of Soviet
workers who believe they are laying the foundations for a radiant
future. As they work harder and dig deeper, their optimism turns to
violence and it becomes clear that what is being dug is not a
foundation pit but an immense grave. This new translation, by
Robert & Elizabeth Chandler and Olga Meerson, is based on the
definitive edition recently published by Pushkin House in
Leningrad. All previous translations were done from a seriously
bowdlerized text. Robert Chandler is also the translator of Vasily
Grossman's Life and Fate. The American scholar Olga Meerson has
written extensively on Pushkin, Dostoevsky, Platonov and many other
Russian authors.
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Soul (Paperback)
Andrey Platonov; Introduction by John Berger; Translated by Elizabeth Chandler, Olga Meerson, Robert Chandler
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TRANSLATED AND WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY ROBERT AND ELIZABETH
CHANDLER 'For the mind, everthing is in the future' Platonov once
wrote; 'for the heart, everything is in the past'. The protagonist
of Soul is a young man torn between these opposing desires, sent as
a kind of missionary to bring the values of modern Russia to his
childhood home town in Central Asia. In this strange, haunting
novella, as well as in the seven stories that accompany it, a
rediscovered master of twentieth century Russian literature is
shown at his wisest and most humane. WITH AN AFTERWORD BY JOHN
BERGER
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