Котлован

by Andrei Platonov, Андрей Платонов

Андрей Платонов — один из самых ярких представителей русской литературы XX столетия. Написанные «в усилии к будущему», его произведения расширяют рамки языка и сознания.
Литературное, научно-техническое и философское наследие А. Платонова своей масштабностью уникально в истории русской литературы советского и постсоветского периода.

Повесть «Котлован» — одно из самых известных произведений А. Платонова, а также один из самых пронзительных текстов русской литературы.

192 pages, Paperback

Published January 1, 2018

About the author

Andrei Platonov, August 28, 1899 – January 5, 1951, was the pen name of Andrei Platonovich Klimentov, a Soviet author whose works anticipate existentialism. Although Platonov was a Communist, his works were banned in his own lifetime for their skeptical attitude toward collectivization and other Stalinist policies.

From 1918 through 1921, his most intensive period as a writer, he published dozens of poems (an anthology appeared in 1922), several stories, and hundreds of articles and essays, adopting in 1920 the Platonov pen-name by which he is best-known. With remarkably high energy and intellectual precocity he wrote confidently across a wide range of topics including literature, art, cultural life, science, philosophy, religion, education, politics, the civil war, foreign relations, economics, technology, famine, and land reclamation, amongst others.

His famous works include the novels The Foundation Pit and Chevengur.

Reviews

[Kirill Protasenia · Rating 5 out of 5]

В неуклюжих лозунгах-репликах главных героев необъятная печаль всех и каждого в канцелярском абсурде пост-революционной разрухи и бессмысленности жизни с тоской о таинственно простом и вечном. Платонов это Маяковский в прозе только гораздо мрачнее.