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Written at the height of Stalin's first 'five-year plan' for the industrialisation of Soviet Russia and the parallel campaign to collectivise Soviet agriculture, Andrei Platonov's "The Foundation Pit" registers a dissonant mixture of utopian longings and despair. Furthermore, it provides essential background to Platonov's parody of the mainstream Soviet 'production' novel, which is widely recognised as one of the masterpieces of twentieth-century Russian prose. In addition to an overview of the work's key themes, it discusses their place within Platonov's oeuvre as a whole, his troubled relations with literary officialdom, the work's ideological and political background, and key critical responses since the work's first publication in the West in 1973.
Contents
Chapter One: Platonov's Life. Chapter Two: Intellectual Influences on Platonov. Chapter Three: The Literary Context of The Foundation Pit. Chapter Four: The Political Context of The Foundation Pit. Chapter Five: The Foundation Pit Itself. The generic context of Platonov's tale: the production novel. Platonov's refraction of the production novel in The Foundation Pit. Principal characters. Important symbols - The proletarian home / tower. Excavation. The language of Platonov's text. Selected annotations of events and situations in The Foundation Pit. Index.
