Idealism in the Works of Andrei Platonov
Idealism in the Works of Andrei Platonov

Author: Susanne Lang Broman

Publisher: LAP Lambert Academic Publishing

Published: 2013

Total Pages: 176

ISBN-13: 9783659358784

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The works of Andrei Platonov embody the dialectic of his era. They deal with the major elements which defined and dictated Soviet life and literature in the 1920s and 1930s. The legacy of the Stalinist period is deeply implicated in contemporary Russian society, where larger patterns of cultural adjustment are still in play. There is revived interest, therefore, both in Russia and the West, in re-evaluating this complex time and author. This book is particularly concerned with providing an examination of the nature and use of irony in the works of Platonov in relation to idealism, as it would be difficult to find in any of his writings an instance of irony that is not, in some way, connected with Soviet idealism. The opposition idealism as irony/irony as idealism describes Platonov's ironic approach to idealism, and his employment of a dichotomic style in order to convey his dialectical way of thinking.

The Portable Platonov
The Portable Platonov

Author: Andreĭ Platonovich Platonov

Publisher: Glas

Published: 1999

Total Pages: 266

ISBN-13:

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Joseph Brodsky looked on Platonov as the equal of Joyce, Kafka and Proust. Platonov marked a new era in literature.

The Feminine in the Prose of Andrey Platonov
The Feminine in the Prose of Andrey Platonov

Author: Philip Bullock

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2017-12-02

Total Pages: 238

ISBN-13: 1351197541

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"Andrey Platonovich Platonov (1899-1951) is increasingly regarded as one of the greatest writers of the Soviet period. His linguistic virtuosity, philosophical rigour and political unorthodoxy combined to create some of the most captivatingly absurd works of literature in any language. Unsurprisingly, many of these remained unpublished in his lifetime, and indeed for many years thereafter. In this lively and original study, Philip Bullock traces the development of feminine imagery in Platonov's prose, from the seemingly misogynist outrage of his early works to the tender reconciliation with domesticity in his final stories, and argues that gender is a crucial feature of the author's audacious utopian vision."

Problems of Idealism
Problems of Idealism

Author: Owen Bennett Jones

Publisher: Yale University Press

Published: 2003-01-01

Total Pages: 504

ISBN-13: 9780300095678

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This work was originally published in 1902 & marked a watershed in the Russian Silver age, a vibrant cultural renaissance.

The Foundation Pit
The Foundation Pit

Author: Andrei Platonov

Publisher: ISCI

Published: 2022-03-01

Total Pages: 123

ISBN-13:

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Written at the height of Stalin's first "five-year plan" for the industrialization of Soviet Russia and the parallel campaign to collectivize Soviet agriculture, Andrei Platonov's The Foundation Pit registers a dissonant mixture of utopian longings and despair. Furthermore, it provides essential background to Platonov's parody of the mainstream Soviet "production" novel, which is widely recognized as one of the masterpieces of twentieth-century Russian prose. In addition to an overview of the work's key themes, it discusses their place within Platonov's oeuvre as a whole, his troubled relations with literary officialdom, the work's ideological and political background, and key critical responses since the work's first publication in the West in 1973.

Alexander Bogdanov and the Politics of Knowledge after the October Revolution
Alexander Bogdanov and the Politics of Knowledge after the October Revolution

Author: Maria Chehonadskih

Publisher: Springer Nature

Published: 2024-01-31

Total Pages: 282

ISBN-13: 3031402391

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In this book, Maria Chehonadskih unsettles established narratives about the formation of a revolutionary canon after the October Revolution. Displacing the centre of gravity from dialectical materialism to the rapid dissemination, canonisation and decline of a striking convergence of empiricism and Marxism, she explores how this tendency, overshadowed by official historiography, establishes a new attitude to modernity and progress, nature and environment, agency and subjectivity, party and class, knowledge and power. The book traces the adventure of the synthesis of empiricism and Marxism across philosophy, science, politics, art and literature from the 1890s to the 1930s, offering a radical rethinking of the true scope and scale that the main proponent of Empirio-Marxism, Alexander Bogdanov, had on the post-revolutionary socialist legacies. Chehonadskih draws on both key and forgotten figures and movements, such as Proletkult, Productivism and Constructivism, filling a gap in the literature that will be particularly significant for Marxism, continental philosophy, art theory and Slavic studies specialists.