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Title: The foundation pit
by Andrei Platonovich Platonov
ISBN: 0-525-10775-4
Publisher: Dutton
Pub. Date: 1975
Format: Unknown Binding
List Price(USD): $1.49
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Average Customer Rating: 4.67 (6 reviews)

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Rating: 5
Summary: sublime.
Comment: Words fail me in praising this. Simply put, it is one of the most over-looked, classic texts of the 20th C. Platonov writes in a style that combines a dreamy, surreal sensibility of the world with a hard, trenchant, unflinching look at the characters who inhabit it. My copy of this is dog-eared, full of notes and underlines- aspiring writers take note- Platonov is a writer who is to be studied, as much for his subtlety and lyrical elegance as his tough-skinned presentation of ruined lives; people trying to craft some order and peace from a world, and largely doomed to fail.

I'm being a bit too romantic, too hyperbolic. I probably shouldn't have attempted this. But I want to put my two cents in as concerns this work, because I love it. It is a marvelous book.

Rating: 5
Summary: Not for the somnambulists.
Comment: This is one of those novels you will return to, repeatedly, like a cure. I can't think of any other work that so profoundly illuminates man's alienation- from self, from others, from nature, from meaning. Every thinking, waking person should own this.

Rating: 4
Summary: REVOLUTION
Comment: Andrey Platonov was right in the middle of revolution. He was one of those who made it happen. And he wrote about what he knew and what he saw. He did not make it big but he was very good.

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