Andrey Platonov - The Forgotten Dream of the Revolution

Informationen zum Autor Tora Lane ph. D is a Project Researcher at CBEES, Sodertorn University, Sweden. Klappentext This book presents an existentialist reading of Andrey Platonov's perspective on the 1917 Russian Revolution. It brings the works of Platonov into a dialogue with the philosophy of Martin Heidegger, Maurice Blanchot, Georges Bataille, and Jean-Luc Nancy on issues of communality, groundlessness, memory, and interiority. Zusammenfassung This book presents an existentialist reading of Andrey Platonov’s perspective on the 1917 Russian Revolution. It brings the works of Platonov into a dialogue with the philosophy of Martin Heidegger, Maurice Blanchot, Georges Bataille, and Jean-Luc Nancy on issues of communality, groundlessness, memory, and interiority. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction1.A Proletarian Existentialist Realism2.Chevengur and the Movement of the Revolution3.The Foundation Pit and the Problem of Time4.Happy Moscow and Universal Love 5.Dzhan: Retrieving the Inner6.Reka Potudan: Love in Existential Poverty7.The Ecstasy of Common Being and the Ecstasy of Existence in Common: "Inspired People" and "The Return" Afterword: The Memory of Utopia and the Utopia of MemoryBibliographyAbout the Author

Product details

• Authors: Tora Lane, Lane Tora
• Publisher: Lexington Books
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.05.2018
• EAN: 9781498547758
• ISBN: 978-1-4985-4775-8
• No. of pages: 160
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > English linguistics / literary studies; LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / 20th Century, Russian, Literary studies: from c 1900 -, Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers, Literary studies: fiction, novelists and prose writers, Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000, LITERARY CRITICISM / Russian & Soviet