Andrey Platonov - The Forgotten Dream of the Revolution

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.

List of contents

Introduction

A Proletarian Existentialist Realism

Chevengur and the Movement of the Revolution

The Foundation Pit and the Problem of Time

Happy Moscow and Universal Love

Dzhan: Retrieving the Inner

Reka Potudan: Love in Existential Poverty

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 Memory
Bibliography
About the Author

About the author

Tora Lane is as researcher at Södertörn University.

Product details

• Authors: Tora Lane, Lane Tora
• Publisher: Lexington Books
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 06.07.2020
• EAN: 9781498547772
• ISBN: 978-1-4985-4777-2
• No. of pages: 160
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > Slavonic linguistics / literary studies; Russia, LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / 20th Century, Literary studies: from c 1900 -, Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000, Former Soviet Union, USSR (Europe), USSR, Soviet Union, LITERARY CRITICISM / Russian & Soviet