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Platonov's brilliant nightmarish novel describes the lives of a group of industrial workers who, in digging out the foundation pit for a huge commercial apartment block, really believe they are laying the foundations for the radiant future. Then some of them are ordered to kickstart 'collectivisation' (collective ownership of farming land) in a village of reluctant peasants, and what had begun in optimism quickly turns to hallucination and murder. Platonov shows his understanding of the dehumanising effects of Soviet jargon, shows how collectivisation led to the starvation of whole villages and the exile of whole populations and he succeeds in taking back control of language to serve vital purposes of communication and freedom.
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A grim and jagged dystopian novel of the early Soviet Union, The Foundation Pit is a scathing indictment of the brutal and anti-intellectual soviet apparatchiki, their policy of forced collectivization, and the mindlessness of "New Soviet Man" rhetoric.
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The Foundation Pit portrays a group of workmen and local bureaucrats engaged in digging the foundation pit for what is to become a grand 'general' building where all the town's inhabitants will live happily and 'in silence.'
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The Foundation Pit
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Hardcover. Condition: Very Good Plus. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good Plus. 1st Edition. VG+ / VG+. Numbering sequence denotes 1st Printing of the 1975 Dutton stated 1st Edition (US) thus. Translated, with introduction, by Mirra Ginsburg. Book is tightly and uniformly bound, has a faint hint of cocking, and, except for small soil spot on top edge, free of markings and other blemishes. Cover is clean and bright, with sharp corners, gently bumped joints and tail, bumped headcap, straight spine, hinges and edges, and boldly legible, crisply distinct lettering and design. Dust Jacket is unclipped (reflecting original USD $7.50 price) and moderately age toned, with rubbing along wraps and bumping along the top edges and head. (Please see Seller images). ISBN 0525107754. ShiroBooks, independent bookseller, takes prides in accurate descriptions, careful wrapping and safe shipping. CONTACT SHIROBOOKS PRIOR TO ORDERING if any questions or for more information, details or photos. Seller Inventory # 004851
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The Foundation Pit
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Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. First US Edition. A bit of browning on jacket ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 141 pages. Seller Inventory # 34101
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Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. Orange boards, square corners, secure binding, grey title and attributions to spine. (xiv)141pp. Clipped corner jacket has short closed tear to front upper left. Toned perimeter. Seller Inventory # ABE-1712232164010
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Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. First edition hardback in Near Fine (approaching Fine) condition with a Very Good unclipped jacket. Dark yellow cloth boards, 141 pages, lightest shelf and use wear, clean, binding tight and square. Jacket has slight edge wear, extremities lightly sunned, 1 cm closed tear to the upper front edge. A very presentable example of a quite uncommon title. Free standard postage worldwide. Seller Inventory # 13720
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ISBN 10: 0525107754
ISBN 13: 9780525107750
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Seller: Dan Pope Books, West Hartford, CT, U.S.A.
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Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. New York, Dutton, 1975. First edition. First printing (with full number line including 1). Hardbound. Fine in a near fine jacket. A clean tight copy, with one or two tiny closed tears to jacket, which has some slight toning at top. Publisher's price intact on front jacket flap ($7.50). Comes with archival-quality mylar jacket protector. Smoke-free. A novel, posthumously published, a satire about Staninist collectivization. Platonov depicted one of the first state-controlled dystopias of the 20th century. The novel is often compared to George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four and Aldous Huxley's Brave New World, although The Foundation Pit can't be regarded as a dystopian novel, as dystopian novels describe a catastrophic future, while Platonov's work describes the present. Finished in 1930, the novel was not published in the Soviet Union until 1987 due to censorship. Joseph Brodsky wrote: "Platonov . should be recognized as the first serious surrealist. I say - first, despite Kafka, because surrealism is by no means an aesthetic category, associated in our view, as a rule, with an individualistic worldview, but a form of philosophical fury, a product of the psychology of a dead end".[. Seller Inventory # Fiction-Soviet-P
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