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Platonov has not been well-served by translators. Until the good people at Harvill came along, a reader would've been hard-pressed to understand why, for example, Joseph Brodsky could call Platonov...more...]]> 31237845 836802 715995 0810111454 9780810111455 7 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1177600284m/715995.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1177600284s/715995.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/715995.The_Foundation_Pit 3.87 120 1973 1 0 false Tue Aug 26 11:24:39 -0700 2008 Fri Aug 29 14:38:36 -0700 2008 more...]]> 3004579 188169 113228 186046050X 9781860460500 2 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1171671973m/113228.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1171671973s/113228.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/113228.The_Foundation_Pit 3.87 120 The Foundation Pit is a scathing indictment of the brutal and anti-intellectual soviet apparatchiki, their policy of forced collectivization, and the mindlessness of "New Soviet Man" rhetoric.]]> 1973 5 0 false Thu Jul 12 17:43:09 -0700 2007 Thu Jul 12 19:22:56 -0700 2007 more...]]> 10008287 659760 715995 0810111454 9780810111455 7 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1177600284m/715995.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1177600284s/715995.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/715995.The_Foundation_Pit 3.87 120 1973 5 0 false Wed Nov 01 00:00:00 -0800 2006 Wed Dec 05 18:14:11 -0800 2007 Wed Dec 05 18:18:28 -0800 2007 more...]]> 60101118 655723 715995 0810111454 9780810111455 7 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1177600284m/715995.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1177600284s/715995.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/715995.The_Foundation_Pit 3.87 120 1973 0 0 false Wed Jun 17 17:53:14 -0700 2009 Wed Jun 17 17:53:57 -0700 2009 http://www.nybooks.com/shop/product?usca... hrmmm...dubiouser and dubiouser.]]> 56807339 126266 4270942 1590173058 9781590173053 1 http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-60x80.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/4270942.The_Foundation_Pit 4.33 3 The Foundation Pit a team of workers has been given the job of digging the foundation of an immense edifice, a palatial home for the perfect future that, they are convinced, is at hand. But the harder the team works, the deeper they dig, the more things go wrong, and it becomes clear that what is being dug is not a foundation but an immense grave. 

The Foundation Pit is Platonov’s most overtly political book, one written in direct response to the staggering brutalities of Stalinist collectivization. It is also a literary masterpiece. Like Kafka–perhaps the only twentieth-century writer to whom he can be usefully compared–Platonov finds a new way of writing, a new approach to language that recasts the terrifying realities of modernity in a deeply disturbing, yet strangely spiritual light.
 
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The Foundation Pit is Platonov’s most overtly political book, one written in direct response to the staggering brutalities of Stalinist collectivization. It is also a literary masterpiece. Like Kafka–perhaps the only twentieth-century writer to whom he can be usefully compared–Platonov finds a new way of writing, a new approach to language that recasts the terrifying realities of modernity in a deeply disturbing, yet strangely spiritual light.
 
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The Foundation Pit is Platonov’s most overtly political book, one written in direct response to the staggering brutalities of Stalinist collectivization. It is also a literary masterpiece. Like Kafka–perhaps the only twentieth-century writer to whom he can be usefully compared–Platonov finds a new way of writing, a new approach to language that recasts the terrifying realities of modernity in a deeply disturbing, yet strangely spiritual light.
 
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The Foundation Pit is Platonov’s most overtly political book, one written in direct response to the staggering brutalities of Stalinist collectivization. It is also a literary masterpiece. Like Kafka–perhaps the only twentieth-century writer to whom he can be usefully compared–Platonov finds a new way of writing, a new approach to language that recasts the terrifying realities of modernity in a deeply disturbing, yet strangely spiritual light.
 
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The Foundation Pit is Platonov’s most overtly political book, one written in direct response to the staggering brutalities of Stalinist collectivization. It is also a literary masterpiece. Like Kafka–perhaps the only twentieth-century writer to whom he can be usefully compared–Platonov finds a new way of writing, a new approach to language that recasts the terrifying realities of modernity in a deeply disturbing, yet strangely spiritual light.
 
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