Andrei Platonov
Subtitle: Uncertainties of Spirit (Cambridge Studies in Russian Literature)
Edition: 1 edition
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: November 2, 2006
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 288
ISBN-13: 9780521026758
Subjects: Novels, other prose & writers: from c 1900 -; Literary Criticism; Literature - Classics / Criticism; Russian; Former Soviet Union, USSR (Europe); Russian & Former Soviet Union; Literary Criticism & Collections / Russian & Former Soviet Union; Platonov, Andreaei Platonovich, --1899-1951--; Platonov, Andreæi Platonovich,--1899-1951--Criticism and interpretation
First sentence: The earliest years of Platonov's career (1917-1926) encompass his emergence as a provincial writer of conspicuous, if also idiosyncratic, talent, a "rare, self-made figure" ("redkii samorodok"), as the audience declared him following one of several "literary evenings" devoted to his poetry in the Voronezh club of the Komsozhur (Inozemtseva, 92).