The Foundation Pit

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Platonov's dystopian novel describes the lives of a group of Soviet workers who believe they are laying the foundations for a radiant future. As they work harder and dig deeper, their optimism turns to violence and it becomes clear that what is being dug is not a foundation pit but an immense grave.

TRANSLATED BY ROBERT AND ELIZABETH CHANDLER AND OLGA MEERSON

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"Andrey Platonov is the most exciting Russian writer to be rediscovered since the end of the Soviet Union. Born in 1899, one of a railway worker's 10 children, he was an engineer, a party member and a model proletarian writer before doubts about Communism, and his literary imagination, landed him in trouble with Stalin. His work stopped being published in the early 1930s and only resurfaced 40 years after his death in 1951... The Foundation Pit will stand out as his masterpiece" Independent

Product details

• Authors: Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Andrey Plananov, Andrey Platonov, Andrej Platonow
• Publisher: Vintage UK
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 30.04.2016
• EAN: 9781784871017
• ISBN: 978-1-78487-101-7
• Dimensions: 115 mm x 180 mm x 16 mm
• Series: VINTAGE BOOKS; Vintage Future; Vintage Future
• Subject: Fiction > Narrative literature