Fourteen Little Red Huts and Other Plays

Author:   Andrei Platonov ,  Robert Chandler ,  Robert Chandler ,  Susan Larsen
Publisher:   Columbia University Press
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9780231181297


Pages:   248
Publication Date:   06 December 2016
Format:   Paperback
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In this essential collection of Andrei Platonov's plays, the noted Platonov translator Robert Chandler edits and introduces The Hurdy-Gurdy (translated by Susan Larsen), Fourteen Little Red Huts (translated by Chandler), and Grandmother's Little Hut (translated by Jesse Irwin). Written in 1930 and 1933, respectively, The Hurdy-Gurdy and Fourteen Little Red Huts constitute an impassioned and penetrating response to Stalin's assault on the Soviet peasantry. They reflect the political urgency of Bertolt Brecht and anticipate the tragic farce of Samuel Beckett but play out through dialogue and characterization that is unmistakably Russian. This volume also includes Grandmother's Little Hut, an unfinished play that represents Platonov's later, gentler work.

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Author:   Andrei Platonov ,  Robert Chandler ,  Robert Chandler ,  Susan Larsen
Publisher:   Columbia University Press
Imprint:   Columbia University Press
Dimensions:   Width: 14.00cm , Height: 1.80cm , Length: 21.60cm
Weight:   0.298kg
ISBN:  

9780231181297


ISBN 10:   0231181299
Pages:   248
Publication Date:   06 December 2016
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Manufactured on demand   Availability explained
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Language:   English

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I squint back on our century and I see six writers I think it will be remembered for. They are Marcel Proust, Franz Kafka, Robert Musil, William Faulkner, Andrei Platonov and Samuel Beckett... They are summits in the literary landscape of our century... What's more, they don't lose an inch of their status when compared to the giants of fiction from the previous century. -- Joseph Brodsky In Russia it is Platonov who is increasingly described as the best writer of the post-revolutionary epoch. -- Victor Erofeyev, Times Literary Supplement


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Andrei Platonov (1899-1951) was a Soviet writer of poetry, short stories, novels, plays, and journalism. Robert Chandler has translated widely from Russian. He is also the editor of Russian Short Stories from Pushkin to Buida (2006) and coeditor of The Penguin Book of Russian Poetry (2015).

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