A satirical parable about the Russian Revolution, written in 1929-30, when the harsh facts of Soviet life made it impossible for a writer to ignore the human cost of Stalin's Russia.
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A satirical parable about the Russian Revolution, written in 1929-30, when the harsh facts of Soviet life made it impossible for a writer to ignore the human cost of Stalin's Russia.
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Good in good dust jacket. First Printing. No markings. Binding tight. Age-toned, especially the jacket. Age spots on the edges only. Text in English, Russian. xiv, 141 p. 22 cm. Translation of Kotlovan.
This is one of the more significant novels about the Stalinist period. It is a short book and , unfortunately, no translation can do it full credit because Platonov recreates the style of Party Newspeak to which all official communiques in Russian had degenerated in his time. The book is, strictly speaking, a satire but it is scarcely a comedy. Of course, it could not be published until well after the author's death. (Platonov died in 1951- two years before Stalin's demise.) In a wider sense, it is about any human beings in the pressure cooker of a "politically correct" regime which has reached escape velocity from rule of law. I warmly recommend the work to anyone interested in these topics.
