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";s:4:"text";s:21465:"He was also a prolific contributor to local periodicals. Seventeenth-century Wilno, capital of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania and thus the second capital of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, was home to five Christian confessions (Roman Catholic, Lutheran, Calvinist, Greek Orthodox, and Uniate) and three religions (Christians, Jews, and Muslims [Tatars]). In the most leanly technical sense, Soul satisfies these criteria. Thus, in Platonov's vision of the coming "golden age" machines are both enemy and savior. These included Zheleznyi put ("Railroad"), the paper of the local railway workers' union; the Voronezh Region Communist Party newspapers Krasnaia derevnia ("Red countryside") and Voronezhskaia kommuna ("Voronezh commune"); and Kuznitsa, the nationwide journal of the "Smithy" group of proletarian writers. In addition we develop print anthologies, work with educators to bring literature in translation into classrooms, host events with foreign authors, and maintain an extensive archive of global writing. From 1918 through 1921, his most intensive period as a writer, he published dozens of poems (an anthology appeared in 1922), several stories, and hundreds of articles and essays, adopting in 1920 the Platonov pen-name by which he is best-known. The police state is not mentioned, much less raged against. His aim was to turn industry over to machines, in order to "transfer man from the realm of material production to a higher sphere of life." There has been a suggestion that it contains coded criticism of the regime.[19]. Platonov is far too weird to ever worry Count Tolstoy's descendants overmuch, and while most any millennium would be happy to claim a story as beautiful as "The Return," I can quickly think of three stories by Gogol that I prefer. Su trágica vida parece querer darnos la respuesta a esa pregunta que Platónov nunca cesó de formular.El cuento «Dzhan», que da nombre a esta recopilación de narraciones, es una saga de la pobreza de un pueblo asiático nómada, agotado y desprovisto de todo: abúlico, andrajoso, se mueve como un sonámbulo, alternando la marcha con prolongados sueños. Brodsky commented "Woe to the people into whose language Andrei Platonov can be translated. The vision of Soul is not of a retreat from revolution but of a deeper, even more fundamentally revolutionized state. Although, like a number of other worker writers (many of whom he had become acquainted with through Kuznitsa and at the 1920 writers' congress), he may have quit the party in dismay over the New Economic Policy (NEP). My conclusions and propositions include the following: that religion and confession played no role in witchcraft litigation; that although there is no doubt that beliefs in the existence of witchcraft persisted, there was nothing like a “witchcraft scare,” and allegations of sorcery were treated on a level with that of petty theft and general misbehavior between neighbors; and that the goal of recourse to the courts was here, and in other types of cases, the restoration of a status quo ante. Andrei Platonov: Soul (Dzhan) Discussion in 'Fiction Books' started by Kenny Shovel, May 31, 2006. This state is polymorphous and supple. In the following list date of publication in brackets refers to the USSR or post-1991 Russia. Neither met with official approval or found support among Platonov's fellow writers. Kenny Shovel Active Member. When he returned to writing prose in 1926, a number of critics and readers noted the appearance of a major and original literary voice. Most excellent writers do this, but Platonov perhaps belongs in a special league. [25] (Batuman is author of The Possessed: Adventures With Russian Books and the People Who Read Them and was Pulitzer Prize finalist for her novel The Idiot. Platonov returned to Turkmenistan in 1935 and his novella Soul (or Dzhan) was based on that trip. At the start of the post-Stalin period, writers and literary critics began to embrace the diaristic form as never before in Soviet history. "[24], Elif Batuman ranked Soul as one of her four favorite 20th century Russian works. Witchcraft trials are treated here as an integral part of “constant litigation” and the “use of justice” in restoring communal peace. Let us be clear right off: these claims are absurd. https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Andrei_Platonov&oldid=983481856, Articles containing Russian-language text, Wikipedia articles with style issues from December 2010, Articles with unsourced statements from November 2009, Articles with specifically marked weasel-worded phrases from June 2018, Wikipedia articles with BIBSYS identifiers, Wikipedia articles with SELIBR identifiers, Wikipedia articles with SUDOC identifiers, Wikipedia articles with Trove identifiers, Wikipedia articles with WorldCat identifiers, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License, Novelist, philosopher, playwright, poet, engineer, "Fourteen Little Red Huts" (play) - 1931 (1988), "Among Animals and Plants" (short story) - 1936 (1936, 1998), This page was last edited on 14 October 2020, at 13:43. "I could no longer be occupied with a contemplative activity like literature," he recalled later. I analyze visual culture and intellectual history to show how this particular artwork became highly instrumental in creating and strengthening Yugoslavism’s primordialist dimension, which sharply marked the South Slavic territories’ political landscape in the decade preceding the first Yugoslav state’s creation. When Civil War broke out in 1918 Platonov assisted his father on trains delivering troops and supplies and clearing snow. He regularly read his poetry and gave critical talks at various club meetings. A turning point in his life and career as a writer came with the publication in March 1931 of For Future Use (″Vprok″ in Russian), a novella that chronicled the forced collectivisation of agriculture during the first Five Year Plan. Words without Borders opens doors to international exchange through translation, publication, and promotion of the best international literature. Soul is a dream allegory, one in which the reader can readily identify symbols without having equal success assessing what they signify. "You're my mother." In advancing these arguments, I revise the interpretations of Soviet literary history that have highlighted the significance of the novel, contributing to a growing body of scholarship on the history of Soviet subjectivity. In this work, Platonov repeatedly describes situations in which the human body endures metamorphoses of every conceivable type and the borders dividing the body from the surrounding world are destroyed (as the body sustains physical wounds or complete collapse). Soul, or Dzhan, (Borrowed from Persian: جان (or jân, “meaning soul, vital spirit, dear life”), in Russian: Джан (или "Душа") was completed in 1935 by Andrey Platonov as a result of his second trip to the Turkmen Republic. Some of his work was published or reprinted during the 1960s' Khrushchev Thaw. Platonov's book was published in Leningrad, as part of the official history of the Communist Party. Nazar wakes: "Don't," says Chagataev. As a cornerstone of early Bolshevik propaganda, nationality policy allowed the revolutionary regime to cast the Soviet “experiment” as emancipatory in both ethnic and class terms. 1207 W. Oregon St., MC 144, Urbana, IL 61801-3716 According to archival evidence (OGPU informer's report, 11 July 1931), Stalin read For Future Use carefully after its publication, adding marginal comments about the author ("fool, idiot, scoundrel") and his literary style ("this isn't Russian but some incomprensible nonsense") to his copy of the magazine. But Platonov is not conservative or liberal. The word Dzhan means, we’re told, soul or dear life. The nineteenth century tales of the first half are deserved classics, but the selections of twentieth century writers, most of them unknown in the West, will be revelations. Platonov wrote beneath the stainless steel yoke of socialist realism, a demand that all useful art concretely situate itself in history and celebrate the inexorable advance of the proletariat. Platonov was born in the settlement of Yamskaya Sloboda on the outskirts of Voronezh in the Chernozem Region of Central Russia. This was not the end of Platonov as a writer. He attended a local parish school and completed his primary education at a four-year city school and began work at age thirteen, with such jobs as office clerk at a local insurance company, smelter at a pipe factory, assistant machinist, warehouseman, and on the railroad. Volume 73 Number 4 Abstracts “The Dialectics of Nature in Kara-Kum”: Andrei Platonov’s Dzhan as the Environmental History of a Future Utopia. This novella functions in the opposite manner. Between 1926 and 1930, the period from NEP to the first Five-Year Plan (1928-1932), Platonov produced his two major works, the novels Chevengur and The Foundation Pit. Karachkina was named after Platonov.[27]. We have a tendency to assume that art produced under an oppressive regime will either capitulate into risible official acceptability or take that oppression for its principal subject. In 1922, in the wake of the devastating drought and famine of 1921, Platonov abandoned journalistic and literary work entirely to work on electrification projects and conduct land reclamation work for the Voronezh Provincial Land Administration and later for agencies of the central government. has strong ties to the works of earlier Russian authors like Fyodor Dostoevsky. It used to be thought that Platonov was born on August 20/September 1, but recent scholarship has established the earlier date. One night while they sleep, an old woman finds them. Meanwhile Platonov had begun to write poems, submitting them to papers in Moscow and elsewhere. The rise of a new privileged form was related dialogically to the emergence of a new normative subjectivity-one that called on citizens to engage in meticulous empirical investigations of Soviet life and to arrive at and advance their own critical conclusions about Soviet reality. Platonov viewed the world as embodying at the same time the opposing principles of spirit and matter, reason and emotion, nature and machine. Platonov’s contribution to the Turkmen volume was a short story titled “Takyr” (or “Salt-flats”) about the liberation of a Persian slave girl. “The Dialectics of Nature in Kara-Kum”: Andrei Platonov's Dzhan as the Environmental History of a Future Utopia (pp. In a blasted Asian landscape where man crawls on the very lip of survival, we are made aware of a vastness that we do not know, that we fail to know, that we sense it is crucial to know. He soon encounters a blind man and his child. His Foundation Pit uses a combination of peasant language with ideological and political terms to create a sense of meaninglessness, aided by the abrupt and sometimes fantastic events of the plot. 727-750) Mieka Erley DOI: 10.5612/slavicreview.73.4.727 Although Platonov was a Communist, his works were banned in his own lifetime for their skeptical attitude toward collectivization and … Andrei Platonov, August 28, 1899 – January 5, 1951, was the pen name of Andrei Platonovich Klimentov, a Soviet author whose works anticipate existentialism. [21] His last publications were two collections of folklore. Andrei Platonov (Russian: Андре́й Плато́нов, IPA: [ɐnˈdrʲej pɫɐˈtonəf]; 28 August [O.S. David Brandenberger and Mikhail V. Zelenov Although the Soviet state in the 1930s censored Dzhan, and only published selected chapters, the uncensored text was finally published in full in 1999. 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