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 as 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.This 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.This prizewinning English translation is the first to be based on the newly available uncensored texts of Platonov’s short fiction.

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    Columbia) revised & enlarged his Dostoevsky: A Life (1934).Foreword to the 2nd EditionList of IllustrationsChronologyA ChildSchool DaysA Raw YouthThis Is Fame!A Sick SoulRebellion?The CondemnedConfessionsBuried AliveFirst LoveTravelling Standing StillResurrection'A Revolt of the Passions'Ends & BeginningsLuckless SuitorA Russian TragedyA Little DiamondRoulettenburgThe IdiotThe Second ExileA Book of Wrath'The Acccursed Year'The Tongue of AdolescenceA Writer's DiaryThe Prophet'Hurrah for Karamazov!''Do Not Detain Me'"Life Beyond Life'BibliographyIndex