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Title	:	The Foundation Pit
Author	:	Andrei Platonov
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	First Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 141 pages
Published	:	June 8th 1994 by Northwestern University Press (first published 1969)
Categories	:	Fiction. Cultural. Russia. Literature. Russian Literature. Classics

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We always believe that the bright future is just around the corner and we wait for it to come…

…on the face of each young Pioneer girl there remained a trace of the difficulty, the feebleness of early life, meagerness of body and beauty of expression. But the happiness of childhood friendship, the realization of the future world in the play of youth and in the worthiness of their own severe freedom signified on the childish faces important gladness, replacing for them beauty and domestic plumpness.

But the future seems not to be eager to arrive and we live in the distressing present and continue to wait…

In the church burned many candles; the light of the silent, sad wax illuminated the entire interior of the building right up to the cupola above the hiding place of the sacred relics, and the cleanwashed faces of the saints stared out into the dead air with an expression of equanimity, like inhabitants of that other peaceful world—but the church was empty.

And then everything seems to be left in the past… But everyone keeps waiting and growing old and then it is time to die… The Foundation Pit is an absolutely perspicacious allegory. Building of utopia always begins with an excavation of a pit but despite all the exertions and enthusiasm things never go any further…

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Original Title:	Котлован (Kotlovan)
ISBN:	0810111454 (ISBN13: 9780810111455)
Edition Language:	English
Setting:	U.S.S.R.
Literary Awards:	Preis der Leipziger Buchmesse Nominee for Übersetzung (2017)

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Some books hit me so hard that it hurts in my chest. Platonov's dense prose and complex thoughts are comparable to Krzhizhanovsky's motley visions. But unlike Krzh. Platonov isn't leaving reality behind as a reaction to a thoughtless society. Instead we get a hyper-sensitized and often animistic reshuffling of the deck of signification. Reduced to units, elements, and matter - life for Platonov is constantly in question. He posits:"What was to be done, oh God, if there were none of those

I read great swathes of this book as absurdist black comedy, and kept imagining the events portrayed as scenes in a marginally avant-garde silent film. Each character is a ghost, or husk of itself, and moves through the narrative as a reasoning automaton, even if that reasoning is fatally flawed, and is not even properly reasoning. Each character is trapped inside its own type-casting, with this type-casting being triple-layered by the author, by the pervasive authority within the narrative,

This is heavy, without the usual sense of existential relief that manages to get through in his other works. But even the first sentence is worthy of a 5 stars.

Terrifying and sad book. What happens when you take out all individuality from people? You are left with empty caricatures. It is so well written though, you see other things, sadness, but also compassion and humor.Amazing discovery, Platonov.

It saddens me when a novel (especially one politically important) remains unpublished during the life of the writer, a writer who ended up seeing out his days in poverty and misery. And Platonov wouldn't be the first Russian to see his work disappear into obscurity. Like Mikhail Bulgakov (although this reads more like a gloomy Kafka) Platonov's novel is a scathing satire on Stalinism, in which he portrays a society systematically and regimented around a monstrous lie, one that plagues any

It has been two years since I read this novel and unlike all the other books I have listed on Goodreads I never wrote a review for this one. I found the book too overwhelming. There was too much I wanted to say about it, and I knew I wouldn't be able to do it justice, because however much I did say, there would always be something left out. In short, I will state that it is the strangest and most disturbing novel I have ever read, but 'strange' and 'disturbing' in a unique way, not in the way

Andrew Platonov's The Foundation Pit is a brutal novel. He shatters any illusions one might have about the virtues of Soviet communism. Platonov's deadpan style makes the hunger and death he depicts that much more empty. And while appearing to favor class struggle and scientific socialism, he subtly demolishes collectivism and any claim to nobility it might claim.