Utopia and Violence
Andrei Platonov: Writing the Modern Age
Osteuropa 8-10/2016
Manfred Sapper, Volker Weichsel (Ed.)
Berlin (BWV) 2016 [= Osteuropa 8-10/2016]
528 pages, 125 figures
Price: 32,00 €
ISBN: 3-8305-3658-1
Deutsche Fassung
Contents
- Editorial
Violence and Utopia. Reading Platonov - Andrej Platonov
On improving the climate - Klaus Gestwa
Modernisation through mobilisation
Excesses of violence, technological upheavals and tactical retreats in the early Soviet Union - The breeding ground of the new man
- Stephan Merl
Stalin’s erroneous path of collectivisation
Destructive forces and the crippling of independent initiative - Serhij Žadan
School of cruelty Man and revolution
- Andrej Platonov
The fight against the desert - Hans Günther
Suffering from the Revolution
Andrei Platonov’s life and work - Andrej Platonov
The culture of the proletariat - Sheila Fitzpatrick
Enthusiasm and disappointment
Platonov’s and Igor Sac’s view of the Revolution - Michail Ryklin
On the wings of liberated collective speech - Natal’ja Kornienko
Controlled, persecuted, destroyed
Andrei Platonov as a target of the Cheka - Anne Hartmann
Anachronistic and independent
Andrei Platonov’s view of Central Asia - Andrej Platonov
The electrification of the villages Platonov: The Work
- Vasilij Golovanov
Journey to the ruins of Chevengur
The rebirth of Platonov - Andrzej Stasiuk
Journey to the truth - Georg Witte
Archaic future beings
Andrei Platonov’s tool men - Andrej Platonov
Electrification - Valerij V’jugin
Reading Platonov
Philosophy of language and fundamental elements of poetics - Andrej Platonov
The Literature Factory - Tatjana Petzer
Utopia and immortality
Death and salvation in N. Fedorov and A. Platonov - Evgenij Jablokov
Beginning and end
The subject of soil in Platonov - Andrej Platonov
The Antisexus In the Foundation Pit
- Iosif Brodskij
Preface to the "Foundation Pit" - Hans Günther
Utopia in becoming and failing
Platonov’s The Foundation Pit and the Tower of Babel - Andrej Platonov
Hallowed be thy name - Robert Hodel
Communist and personal happiness
An investigation into Platonov’s The Foundation Pit - Sybille Lewitscharoff
Vom Segen der Neuen Zeit - Natal’ja Dužina
Portrayal of a distorted image
Andrei Platonov’s The Foundation Pit - Christian Teichmann
“This is how graves are dug, not houses”
Stalinist infrastructure and those who built it - Andrej Platonov
Proletarische Dichtung - Andreas Guski
Zero growth in the desert
Platonov’s Foundation Pit and the Soviet production novel - Lola Debüser
“Since might is yours, you’ll have the right”
Platonov’s The Foundation Pit - Dževad Karahasan
Ein Heiliger der kommunistischen RevolutionVolltext - Ol’ga Meerson
“Oaky maple” and the ritual of reconciliation
Biblical and liturgical subtexts in The Foundation Pit Rezeption und Inspiration
- Pier Paolo Pasolini
Unforgettable poetics
Andrei Platonov’s Chevengur - Ulrich Schmid
Joke, satire, irony and deeper meaning
Platonov’s difficult reception in and beyond Russia - Julia Kissina
Ein Urphilosoph mit höckrigem SchädelVolltext - Lola Debüser, Christina Links
„Von diesem Autor komme ich nicht mehr los“
Andrej Platonov, der Klassiker und die Edition in der DDR - Gabriele Leupold
The ultimate joy of mood
Translating The Foundation Pit - Eugene Ostashevsky
Die gelebte Sprache der RevolutionVolltext - Robert Chandler
The plane tree and the stones
Translating Platonov - Ilma Rakusa
Eine peinture naïve des KommunismusVolltext - Anna Kovalova
Silent film poetics
Andrei Platonov and the cinema - Elena Fanajlova
Ein Luftzug zwischen Körper und SeeleVolltext - Tatjana Frumkis
“How full of silence is the noise”
Andrei Platonov and contemporary Russian music - Marion Poschmann
Der nachtschwarze BandVolltext