Chapter One: Platonov's Life. Chapter Two: Intellectual Influences on Platonov. Chapter Three: The Literary Context of The Foundation Pit. Chapter Four: The Political Context of The Foundation Pit. Chapter Five: The Foundation Pit Itself. The generic context of Platonov's tale: the production novel. Platonov's refraction of the production novel in The Foundation Pit. Principal characters. Important symbols - The proletarian home / tower. Excavation. The language of Platonov's text. Selected annotations of events and situations in The Foundation Pit. Index.
Thomas Seifrid (Ph.D. Cornell University,1984) is Professor of Slavic Studies, University of Southern California. Author of Andrei Platonov. Uncertainties of Spirit (Cambridge University Press, 1992), The Word Made Self: Russian Writings on Language, 1860-1930 (Cornell University Press, 2005), and numerous articles on Russian literature and culture.
The Foundation Pit by Russian Soviet writer Andrei Platonov
(1890-1951) was a satirical novel following the travails of a group
of workers digging out a foundation pit for a gigantic "House for
all Proletariat" and is considered by some to have been a
significant influence on other state-control dystopias such as
George Orwell's 1984 and Aldous Huxley's Brave New World. This
volume by Seifrid (Slavic Languages and Literatures, University of
Southern California) is a companion work for students studying The
Foundation Pit. It offers overviews of Platonov's life and his
intellectual influences; chapters describing the literary and
political contexts of the work; and an exegesis of the novel that
includes discussion of principal characters, important symbols, and
the language employed, as well as selected annotations of events
and situatons in the novel
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