The fierce and beautiful world
Subtitle: stories
By: Andrei Platonov ; translated by Joseph Barnes ; introduction by Tatyana Tolstoya.
Contributors: Tolstai͡a︡, Tatʹi͡a︡na, 1951 May 3-; Barnes, Joseph, 1907-1970.
Series: New York Review Books classics
Publisher: New York Review Books
Published: 2000
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 264
Subjects: Platonov, Andreĭ Platonovich, 1899-1951 -- Translations into English.; Soviet Union -- Social life and customs -- Fiction.
Genres: Translations into English.; Fiction.
Description: "This collection of Platonov's short fiction brings together seven works drawn from the whole of his career. It includes the harrowing, and long-unavailable, novella Dzahn, in which a young man returns to his Asian birthplace to find his people deprived not only of food and dwelling, but of memory and speech, and "The Potudan River," Platonov's most celebrated story."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Originally published: New York : E.P. Dutton, 1970.
Table of contents: title: Dzhan; title: Fro; title: The Potudan River; title: Homecoming; title: The third son; title: Aphrodite; title: The fierce and beautiful world.