Andrei Platonov: Uncertainties of Spirit

The Soviet writer Andrei Platonov (1899-1951) belongs to a Russian philosophical tradition that includes such figures as Vladimir Solov'ev, Mikhail Bakhtin, and Boris Pasternak. This study investigates the interrelation of themes, imagery, and the use of language in his prose. Thomas Seifrid shows how Platonov was particularly influenced by Russian utopian thought of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, and how his world view was also shaped by its implicit dialogue with the official Soviet philosophy of Marxism-Leninism, and later with Stalinist utopianism.

Author: Thomas Seifrid
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 11/02/2006
Pages: 292
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.82lbs
Size: 8.50h x 5.51w x 0.66d
ISBN: 9780521026758

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