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Item Details
Title:
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THE FOUNDATION PIT
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By: |
Andrey Platonov |
Format: |
Paperback |

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£15.95 |
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ISBN 10: |
0810111454 |
ISBN 13: |
9780810111455 |
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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US |
Imprint: |
Northwestern University Press |
Returns: |
Returnable |
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