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Andrei Platonovich Platonov (Russian: Андре́й Плато́нович Плато́нов, romanized: ɐnˈdrʲej plɐˈtonəf, born Klimentov (Russian: Климе́нтов); 28 August [O.S. 16 August] 1899 – 5 January 1951) was a Soviet Russian novelist, short story writer, philosopher, playwright, and poet.
Learn about the life and works of Andrei Platonov, a Soviet prose fiction writer who supported communism but exposed its flaws and failures. Discover how his novels, such as Chevengur and The Foundation Pit, were censored and criticized by Stalin and his regime.
Andrei Platonov (pluh-TAWN-awf), the pseudonym of Andrei Platonovich Klimentov, was a fiction writer, dramatist, poet, and critic; he was one of the most important Soviet writers of the first...
Nov 30, 2020 · Platonov died in poverty and obscurity in 1951 of tuberculosis contracted while caring for his son who passed away a few years earlier from the same disease, which he caught in a Gulag to which he was sent at the age of fifteen by the regime his father criticized and rejected in his novels and stories.
- Marina F. Bykova
- 2020
In Andrei Platonov's posthumously published Chevengur, there occurs an inscription on an anonymous grave: “I am alive and I weep; she is dead and is silent.” 1 It sums up Platonov's credo ...
Nov 13, 2010 · An anti-Stalinist author who died in obscurity in 1951 may be the greatest Russian writer of the last century, his English translator Robert Chandler explains to Daniel Kalder. Stalin called him scum.
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Andrei Platonov (Андрей Платонов, 28 August 1899 – 5 January 1951) was the pen name of Andrei Platonovich Klimentov (Андрей Платонович Климентов), a Soviet writer, philosopher, playwright, and poet. Although Platonov regarded himself as a communist, his principal works remained unpublished in his ...
