Fourteen Little Red Huts and Other Plays (Russian Library) - Hardcover

Platonov, Andrei

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0231181280 ISBN 13: 9780231181280

Publisher: Columbia University Press, 2016

Synopsis

In this essential collection of Andrei Platonov's plays, the noted Platonov translator Robert Chandler edits and introduces The Hurdy-Gurdy (translated by Susan Larsen), Fourteen Little Red Huts (translated by Chandler), and Grandmother's Little Hut (translated by Jesse Irwin). Written in 1930 and 1933, respectively, The Hurdy-Gurdy and Fourteen Little Red Huts constitute an impassioned and penetrating response to Stalin's assault on the Soviet peasantry. They reflect the political urgency of Bertolt Brecht and anticipate the tragic farce of Samuel Beckett but play out through dialogue and characterization that is unmistakably Russian. This volume also includes Grandmother's Little Hut, an unfinished play that represents Platonov's later, gentler work.

About this title

Book Description:

Andrei Platonov's plays The Hurdy-Gurdy and Fourteen Little Red Huts constitute an impassioned and penetrating response to Stalin's assault on the Soviet peasantry. They reflect the political urgency of Bertolt Brecht and anticipate the tragic farce of Samuel Beckett but play out through dialogue and characterization that is unmistakably Russian. This volume also includes Grandmother's Little Hut, an unfinished play that represents Platonov's later, gentler work.

About the Author:

Andrei Platonov (1899–1951) was a Soviet writer of poetry, short stories, novels, plays, and journalism.

Robert Chandler has translated widely from Russian. He is also the editor of Russian Short Stories from Pushkin to Buida (2006) and coeditor of The Penguin Book of Russian Poetry (2015).

About this edition

• Publisher: Columbia University Press
• Publication date: 2016
• ISBN 10: 0231181280
• ISBN 13: 9780231181280
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 248
• Editor: Chandler Robert