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ISBN-10: 0231181299
ISBN-13: 9780231181297
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Publish Date: 12/06/2016
Dimensions: 8.40" L, 5.50" W, 0.70" H

Fourteen Little Red Huts and Other Plays

Editor: Robert Chandler
Translator: Robert Chandler
Translator: Susan Larsen
Translator: Jesse Irwin

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Price: $19.95

Overview

In this essential collection of Andrei Platonov’s plays, the noted Platonov translator Robert Chandler edits and introduces The Hurdy-Gurdy (translated by Susan Larsen), Fourteen Little Red Huts (translated by Chandler), and Grandmother’s Little Hut (translated by Jesse Irwin). Written in 1930 and 1933, respectively, The Hurdy-Gurdy and Fourteen Little Red Huts constitute an impassioned and penetrating response to Stalin’s assault on the Soviet peasantry. They reflect the political urgency of Bertolt Brecht and anticipate the tragic farce of Samuel Beckett but play out through dialogue and characterization that is unmistakably Russian. This volume also includes Grandmother’s Little Hut, an unfinished play that represents Platonov’s later, gentler work.

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Part horror story, part ideological stand-up comedy, Platonov's plays depict an absurd, nightmarish world in which hope and cynicism are inextricable. Their publication in this appropriately clever and meticulously annotated translation serves as an important contribution to our understanding of one of the twentieth century's most tragic chapters. Platonov, whose complex prose has already established him as Russia's closest equivalent to Faulkner, here emerges as a dramatist who can easily enter into conversation with Beckett.–Eric Naiman, author of Nabokov, Perversely
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Details

ISBN-10: 0231181299
ISBN-13: 9780231181297
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Publish Date: 12/06/2016
Dimensions: 8.40" L, 5.50" W, 0.70" H
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