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The Starry Desert

Brand: Andrei Platonov
Collection: Pleiades Collection
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Product Code:: 3086-01
ISBN: 978-619-01-1137-5
SKU: 08.0109

Year: 21-11-2022
Translation: from Russian: Ognyana Ivanova (selection, translation and afterword)
Pages: 176
Size: 140/215 мм
Weight: 0.200 кг
Collection: Collection "Pleiades"
Cover Type: Paperback
Genre: Sci-fi, Short Stories, Fairytales

Andrei Platonov

Andrei Platonov (1899-1951) was the pen name of Andrei Platonovich Klimentov, a Soviet Russian writer, playwright, and poet, whose works anticipate existentialism. Although Platonov was a Communist, most of his works were banned in his own lifetime for their skeptical attitude toward collectivization and other Stalinist policies, as well as for its experimental, avant-garde form. His famous works …

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Platonov's genius is not to be questioned or debated. Platonov is not just a person, he is a phenomenon.

- А. Н. Varlamov, critic

Andrei Platonov is a bright representative of the Russian avant-garde. He has been compared to Joyce, Kafka, Dostoevsky, Ionesco and Beckett. In his works there are elements of grotesque and utopia. He is said to portray realistically the absurdity of life in the USSR. He uses shocking language. He manages to combine incompatible concepts and his suggestions have a frightening power. He often chooses words as if he were mining the text with explosives.

Many of Platonov's stories, like his fairy tales, are perceived as parables. This collection specifically includes works unknown to Bulgarian readers, which are lyrical and dramatic, poignant and full of compassion. This is the first time his tales have been published in Bulgarian. The fantastic stories in the book are a continuation of the writer's enthusiastic dreams from his youth for a better life with the help of scientific progress and the domestication of nature.

- Ognyana Ivanova

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