{"product_id":"soul-and-other-stories-paperback","title":"Soul: And Other Stories - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eAndrey Platonov\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003eRobert Chandler\u003c\/b\u003e (Translator), \u003cb\u003eRobert Chandler\u003c\/b\u003e (Introduction by)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA New York Review Books Original\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe Soviet writer Andrey Platonov saw much of his work suppressed or censored in his lifetime. In recent decades, however, these lost works have reemerged, and the eerie poetry and poignant humanity of Platonov's vision have become ever more clear. For Nadezhda Mandelstam and Joseph Brodsky, Platonov was the writer who most profoundly registered the spiritual shock of revolution. For a new generation of innovative post-Soviet Russian writers he figures \u003cbr\u003eas a daring explorer of word and world, the master of what has been called \"alternative realism.\" Depicting a devastated world that is both terrifying and sublime, Platonov is, without doubt, a universal writer who is as solitary and haunting as Kafka. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThis volume gathers eight works that show Platonov at his tenderest, warmest, and subtlest. Among them are \"The Return,\" about an officer's difficult homecoming at the end of World War II, described by Penelope Fitzgerald as one of \"three great works of Russian literature of the millennium\"; \"The River Potudan,\" a moving account of a troubled marriage; and the title novella, the extraordinary tale of a young man unexpectedly transformed by his return to his Asian birthplace, where he finds his people deprived not only of food and dwelling, but of memory and speech. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThis prizewinning English translation is the first to be based on the newly available uncensored texts of Platonov's short fiction.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eANDREY PLATONOV\u003c\/b\u003e (1899--1951), the son of a metalworker and the eldest of ten children, was born in a village near the Russian town of Voronezh. He began to publish poems and stories in the 1920s and worked as a land reclamation expert in central Russia, where he was a witness to the ravages of the Great Famine. In the 1930s Platonov fell into disfavor with the Soviet government and his writing disappeared from sight. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eJOHN BERGER is the author of numerous works of fiction and nonfiction, including \u003ci\u003eTo the Wedding\u003c\/i\u003e, the \u003ci\u003eInto their Labours\u003c\/i\u003e trilogy, \u003ci\u003eAbout Looking, Ways of Seeing, and G\u003c\/i\u003e., for which he won the Booker Prize. His most recent book is \u003ci\u003eHold Everything Dear: Dispatches on Survival and Resistanc\u003c\/i\u003ee. He lives in a small rural community in France. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eROBERT CHANDLER has translated selections of Sappho and Apollinaire and is the editor of \u003ci\u003eRussian Short Stories from Pushkin to Buida\u003c\/i\u003e. His translations from Russian include Pushkin's \u003ci\u003eDubrovsky\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eThe Captain's Daughter\u003c\/i\u003e, Leskov's \u003ci\u003eLady Macbeth of Mtsensk\u003c\/i\u003e, Vasily Grossman's \u003ci\u003eLife and Fate\u003c\/i\u003e and Hamid Ismailo's \u003ci\u003eThe Railway\u003c\/i\u003e. His co-translations of Andrey Platonov have won prizes in the UK and the US. His \u003ci\u003eAlexander Pushkin\u003c\/i\u003e is published by Hesperus in their series of Brief Lives. He teaches part time at Queen Mary, University of London. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eELIZABETH CHANDLER is a co-translator of several volumes of Platonov and of Pushkin's \u003ci\u003eThe Captain's Daughter.\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eOLGA MEERSON teaches at Georgetown University and is the author of \u003ci\u003eDostoevsky's Taboos\u003c\/i\u003e (in English) and\u003ci\u003e Platonov's Poetic of Re-Familiarization \u003c\/i\u003e(in Russian\u003ci\u003e). \u003c\/i\u003eShe is a co-translator of Platonov's \u003ci\u003eThe Foundation Pit \u003c\/i\u003eand\u003ci\u003e Soul and Other Stories\u003c\/i\u003e, which, in 2004, was awarded the AATSEEL prize for best translation from a Slavonic language.\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 400\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.85 x 8.02 x 5.1 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eIllustrated:\u003c\/strong\u003e Yes\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e December 04, 2007\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51771264729376,"sku":"9781590172544","price":21.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/faba1dd5e22dee4f18987fa3e6da06b4.webp?v=1780383809","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/soul-and-other-stories-paperback","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}