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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.
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
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.
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...
Mar 11, 2024 · Benjamin Kunkel writes on the Soviet writer Andrei Platonov (1899-1951), on his troubled relationship with the authorities despite his passionate belief in the Communist cause, and on his novel...
Jan 20, 2017 · I show why Dzhan, one of Andrei Platonov's first earnest attempts to evolve into a socialist realist writer glorifying the Soviet state's firm strides toward the communist future, fails to achieve the semantic certitude of the Stalinist text.
