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Informationen zum Autor Andrey Platonovich Platonov (1899-1951) began publishing poems and articles in 1918, while studying engineering. Between 1927 and 1932 he wrote his most politically controversial works, some of them first published in Russian only in the 1990s. After reading his story 'For Future Use', Stalin referred to Platonov as 'an agent of our enemies'. From September 1942, after being recommended to the chief editor of Red Star by his friend Vasily Grossman, Platonov worked as a war correspondent. He died in 1951, of tuberculosis caught from his son, who had spent three years in the Gulag. Happy Moscow , one of his finest novels, was first published in Russia only in 1991; letters, notebook entries and unfinished stories continue to appear. Elizabeth Chandler is a co-translator, with Robert Chandler, of Pushkin's The Captain's Daughter and several works by Andrey Platonov and Vasily Grossman. Robert Chandler 's translations from Russian include works by Alexander Pushkin, Andrey Platonov, Vasily Grossman and Hamid Ismailov. He is the editor and main translator of Russian Short Stories from Pushkin to Buida and Russian Magic Tales from Pushkin to Platonov , and together with Boris Dralyuk and Irina Mashinski he co-edited The Penguin Book of Russian Poetry . Klappentext Exclusive to Vintage Classics, this is translated and with an introduction by Robert and Elizabeth Chandler. Zusammenfassung In this strange, haunting novella, as well as in the seven stories that accompany it, a rediscovered master of twentieth century Russian literature is shown at his wisest and most humane. WITH AN AFTERWORD BY JOHN BERGER

Product details

• Authors: Andrei Platonov, Andrey Platonov, Platonov Andrey
• Assisted by: John Berger (Introduction), Elizabeth Chandler (Translation), Robert Chandler (Translation), Chandler Robert (Translation), Olga Meerson (Translation), Meerson Olga (Translation)
• Publisher: Vintage UK
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 01.08.2013
• EAN: 9780099455134
• ISBN: 978-0-09-945513-4
• No. of pages: 400
• Dimensions: 129 mm x 198 mm x 25 mm
• Series: Vintage Classics; VINTAGE CLASSICS
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; FICTION / Short Stories (single author), Russia, Short Stories, Fiction in translation, FICTION / World Literature / Russia / 20th Century, Classic fiction: general and literary, stalin; tolstoy; robert chandler; dostoevsky; communism