Soul: And Other Stories (New York Review Books Classics)

Soul: And Other Stories (New York Review Books Classics)

A New York Review Books Original

The Soviet writer Andrey Platonov saw much of his work suppressed or censored in his lifetime. In recent decades, however, these lost works have reemerged, and the eerie poetry and poignant humanity of Platonovâ€™s vision have become ever more clear. For Nadezhda Mandelstam and Joseph Brodsky, Platonov was the writer who most profoundly registered the spiritual shock of revolution. For a new generation of innovative post-Soviet Russian writers he figures
as a daring explorer of word and world, the master of what has been called â€œalternative realism.â€ Depicting a devastated world that is both terrifying and sublime, Platonov is, without doubt, a universal writer who is as solitary and haunting as Kafka.

This volume gathers eight works that show Platonov at his tenderest, warmest, and subtlest. Among them are â€œThe Return,â€ about an officerâ€™s difficult homecoming at the end of World War II, described by Penelope Fitzgerald as one of â€œthree great works of Russian literature of the millenniumâ€; â€œThe River Potudan,â€ a moving account of a troubled marriage; and the title novella, the extraordinary tale of a young man unexpectedly transformed by his return to his Asian birthplace, where he finds his people deprived not only of food and dwelling, but of memory and speech.

This prizewinning English translation is the first to be based on the newly available uncensored texts of Platonovâ€™s short fiction.
Country USA
Brand New York Review of Books
Manufacturer NYRB Classics
Binding Paperback
ItemPartNumber Illustrated
Color Multicolor
ReleaseDate 2007-12-04
UnitCount 1
EANs 9781590172544

Country	USA
Brand	New York Review of Books
Manufacturer	NYRB Classics
Binding	Paperback
ItemPartNumber	Illustrated
Color	Multicolor
ReleaseDate	2007-12-04
UnitCount	1
EANs	9781590172544

Soul: And Other Stories (New York Review Books Classics)

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