The Guardian: Andrei Platonov: Russia's greatest 20th-century prose stylist?
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Andrei Platonov
Andrei Platonovich Platonov was a Soviet Russian novelist, short story writer, philosopher, playwright, and poet. Although Platonov regarded himself as a communist, his principal works were banned until thirty years after his death because of their skeptical attitude toward collectivization of agriculture (1929–1940) and other Stalinist policies, as well as for their experimental, avant-garde form…
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culture · Russian author · writer · playwright · science fiction writer · poet · prose writer · novelist · critic · also Andrei Platonov, Andrei Platonovich Platonov, Platonov
Born 16 August 1899 · Died 5 January 1951 · Q315147
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2010· 1 entry
2009· 1 entry
In 2012 by Happy Moscow, an unfinished novel (not published in Platonov's lifetime), and in 2023 a new translation of Chevengur
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2007· 1 entry
New York Review Books published a collection of newer translations of some of these stories, including the novella Soul (1934), "The Return" (1946) and "The River Potudan"
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2000· 1 entry
The New York Review Books Classics series republished The Fierce and Beautiful World with an introduction by Tatyana Tolstaya
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1970· 1 entry
With an introduction by Yevgeny Yevtushenko and became Platonov's first book published in English translation
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1951· 1 entry
Died 1951-01-05.
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1946· 1 entry
His last published short story, "The Return," was slammed in Literaturnaya Gazeta as a "slander" against Soviet culture
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1939· 1 entry
The story was republished in the intended collective volume, Fictional representations of Railway Transport (1939) dedicated to the heroes of the Soviet railroad system
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1935· 1 entry
And this was the basis for his novella Soul (or Dzhan)
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1934· 1 entry
Maksim Gorky arranged for Platonov to be included in a "writers' brigade" sent to Central Asia with the intention of publishing a collective work in celebration of ten years of Soviet Turkmenistan
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1933· 1 entry
An OGPU official Shivarov wrote a special report on Platonov
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1927· 1 entry
Became, for the first time, a professional writer, working with a number of leading magazines
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1926· 1 entry
A number of critics and readers noted the appearance of a major and original literary voice
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1922· 1 entry
In the wake of the devastating drought and famine of 1921, Platonov abandoned writing to work on electrification and land reclamation for the Voronezh Provincial Land Administration and later for the central government
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1921· 1 entry
Platonov married Maria Aleksandrovna Kashintseva (1903–1983); they had a son, Platon, in 1922, and a daughter, Maria, in 1944
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1920· 1 entry
The pen-name Platonov by which he is best-known
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1918· 1 entry
Platonov assisted his father on trains delivering troops and supplies and clearing snow
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1899· 1 entry
Born 1899-08-16.
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