{"product_id":"soul-and-other-stories-new-york-review-books-classics","title":"Soul: And Other Stories (New York Review Books Classics)","description":"A New York Review Books Original\n\nThe Soviet writer Andrey Platonov saw much of his work suppressed or censored in his lifetime. 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\nas 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.\n\nThis 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.\n\nThis prizewinning English translation is the first to be based on the newly available uncensored texts of Platonov’s short fiction.\u003cbr\u003eASIN: 159017254X\u003cbr\u003eVSKU: DBV.159017254X.G\u003cbr\u003eCondition: Good\u003cbr\u003eAuthor\/Artist:Platonov, Andrey|Chandler, Robert|Meerson, Olga|Berger, John\u003cbr\u003eBinding: Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eNote:\u003c\/b\u003e Any images shown are stock photographs and product may differ from what is shown.  \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition Notes\u003c\/b\u003e: Gently used with minimal wear on the corners and cover. A few pages may contain light highlighting or writing, but the text remains fully legible. Dust jacket may be missing, and supplemental materials like CDs or codes may not be included. May be ex-library with library markings. Ships promptly!  \u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Dream Books Co.","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":41504379600954,"sku":"DBV.159017254X.G","price":8.49,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0555\/6011\/0138\/files\/159017254X-0.jpg?v=1783104802","url":"https:\/\/shop.dreambooksco.com\/products\/soul-and-other-stories-new-york-review-books-classics","provider":"Dream Books Co.","version":"1.0","type":"link"}