Mar 1, 2013
ANDREY PLATONOV - VINTAGE CLASSICS
Since the collapse of the Soviet Union, one of the more remarkable literary discoveries has been Andrey Platonov. Despite being a supporter of the 1917 Revolution, Platonov quickly became disillusioned as he...

 

ANDREY PLATONOV - VINTAGE CLASSICS

Since the collapse of the Soviet Union, one of the more remarkable literary discoveries has been Andrey Platonov. Despite being a supporter of the 1917 Revolution, Platonov quickly became disillusioned as he witnessed the effects of the 1921 drought and subsequent famine. By the end of that decade he had begun to document Soviet life, and while many of his early stories were printed, his later, more politically sensitive novels remained unpublished until after his death in 1951.

These typographical treatments are intended to reflect the Communist experience in Platonov’s writing – the workers as part of the machine in The Foundation Pit; the parachutist’s firey descent in Happy Moscow; and the star representing both the heartbeat of the individual and the individual bounded by society.

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