Котлован / Ювенильное море

by Andrei Platonov, Андрей Платонов

Перед вами "Котлован" - шедевр отечественной антиутопической притчи, книга, которую сравнивают с "Процессом" Кафки и "1984" Оруэлла, и повести "Ювенильное море", "Эфирный тракт", "Епифанские шлюзы", "Город Градов", "Ямская слобода". Когда-то - запрещенные властью произведения талантливого писателя. Теперь - классика не только русскоязычной, но и мировой прозы.

475 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 2011

About the author

Andrei Platonov, August 28, 1899 – January 5, 1951, was the pen name of Andrei Platonovich Klimentov, a Soviet author whose works anticipate existentialism. Although Platonov was a Communist, his works were banned in his own lifetime for their skeptical attitude toward collectivization and other Stalinist policies.

From 1918 through 1921, his most intensive period as a writer, he published dozens of poems (an anthology appeared in 1922), several stories, and hundreds of articles and essays, adopting in 1920 the Platonov pen-name by which he is best-known. With remarkably high energy and intellectual precocity he wrote confidently across a wide range of topics including literature, art, cultural life, science, philosophy, religion, education, politics, the civil war, foreign relations, economics, technology, famine, and land reclamation, amongst others.

His famous works include the novels The Foundation Pit and Chevengur.