Order from a Major Online Bookstore
Ultimate Book Price Comparison Engine
Save Your Time And Money
| AnyBook4Less.com | Order from a Major Online Bookstore |
|
| Home | Store List | FAQ | Contact Us | | ||
| Ultimate Book Price Comparison Engine Save Your Time And Money |
||
 |
Title: The Foundation Pit by Andrey Platonov, Robert Chandler ISBN: 1-86046-050-X Publisher: Harvill Press Pub. Date: 01 January, 1998 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $19.99 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.67 (6 reviews)
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.
 |
Title: Moscow to the End of the Line by Venedikt Erofeev, H. William Tjalsma ISBN: 0810112000 Publisher: Northwestern Publishing House Pub. Date: 01 September, 1994 List Price(USD): $18.00 |
 |
Title: The Twelve Chairs (European Classics (Northwestern Univ Pr)) by Ilia Arnoldovich Ilf, Petrov, John H. C. Richardson, Ilf, Maurice Friedberg ISBN: 0810114844 Publisher: Northwestern University Press Pub. Date: 01 April, 1997 List Price(USD): $16.05 |
 |
Title: We by Yevgeny Zamyatin, Mirra Ginsburg ISBN: 0380633132 Publisher: Eos Pub. Date: 03 August, 1999 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
 |
Title: The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov, Diana Burgin, Katherine Tiernan O'Connor, Diana Lewis Burgin ISBN: 0679760806 Publisher: Vintage Books USA Pub. Date: 01 March, 1996 List Price(USD): $13.00 |
 |
Title: Heart of a Dog by Mikhail Bulgakov ISBN: 0802150594 Publisher: Grove Press Pub. Date: 01 August, 1987 List Price(USD): $12.00 |
Thank you for visiting www.AnyBook4Less.com and enjoy your savings!
Copyright� 2001-2021 Send your comments
