Andrei Platonov: Uncertainties of Spirit

by Thomas Seifrid

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 052102675X
• ISBN13: 9780521026758
• Release Date: November 2006
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 292 Pages
• Weight: 0.82 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.5" x 8.5"