THE FOUNDATION PIT by Andrey Platonov ( 9780810111455 ) - Books & Audio Books at Pickabook.co.uk

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Title:

THE FOUNDATION PIT

By:

Andrey Platonov

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Paperback

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ISBN 10:

0810111454

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9780810111455

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Publisher:

NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY PRESS

Pub. date:

31 March, 1994

Pages:

141

Description:

The Foundation Pit portrays a group of workmen and local bureaucrats engaged in digging the foundation pit for a grand building where all the town's will live happily and "in silence."

Synopsis:

Once known only to a small circle of admirers in Russia and the West, Andrey Platonov (1899-1951) has emerged to assume his rightful place as one of the major Russian writers of the twentieth century. Set during a small Russian town during the forcible collectivization of agriculture, The Foundation Pit portrays a group of workmen and local bureaucrats engaged in digging the foundation pit for a grand building where all the town's will live happily and -in silence.-

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