"The Fierce and Beautiful World" by Andrei Platonov; Introduction by Tatyana Tolstaya, published in 2000 in the United States by The New York Review of Books, in paperback, 268pp, ISBN 0940322331
Condition Notes: Very good condition, neat, clean & tidy copy, well looked-after. There's a very very faint crease line across the top corner for most of the pages in the introduction section (barely noticeable)
About this book: Like so many Soviet writers, Andrei Platonov saw his work suppressed in his lifetime. Since then, however, it has established itself, both a home and abroad, as an extraordinary and haunting achievement of twentieth-century literature. For Nadezhda Mandelstam and Joseph Brodsky, Platonov was the writer who most profoundly registered the spiritual ravages of Soviet life. For a new generation of experimental Russian writers, he figures as a remarkable linquistic innovator, the master of what has been called "alternative realism". Lyrical, strange, yet sharply concrete, Platonov's fiction is that of a wanderer in an all-too-real Utopia, a devastated world that is both terrifying and sublime.
This collection of Platonov's short fiction brings together seven works drawn from the whole of his career. It includes the harrowing, and long-unavailable, novel Dzahn, in which a young man returns to his Asian birthplace to find his people deprived not only of food and dwelling, but of memory and speech, and "The Potudan River", Platonov's most celebrated story
Stories included:
Introduction
Dzhan
Fro
The Potudan River
Homecoming
The Third Son
Aprodite
The Fierce and Beautiful World
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