Andrei Platonov

The Foundation Pit

Dystopian novella set in revolutionary Soviet communal construction and ideological fervor

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Andrei Platonov
Andrei Platonov

Russian author whose visionary, linguistically bizarre fiction depicted the human cost of Soviet industrialization with compassion and dark absurdism. The Foundation Pit and Chevengur are his neglected masterpieces.

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