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The Foundation Pit (‹See Tfd›Russian: Котлован, romanized: Kotlovan) is a gloomy symbolic and semi-satirical novel by Andrei Platonov. The plot of the novel concerns a group of workers living in the early Soviet Union. They attempt to dig out a huge foundation pit on the base of which a gigantic house will be built for the country's proletarians. The wo… See more
Original titleКотлован (Kotlovan)
Originally publishedJanuary 1, 1930
AuthorAndrei Platonov
GenreFiction · Russia · Russian Literature · Classics · Literature · Dystopia · Novels · 20th Century · Science Fiction · Literary Fiction
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Voschev, a machine factory worker, is berated by management for sitting around on the job. When asked why he stands idly for hours when he should be working, Voschev responds that he is trying to find the true me… See more
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• Voshchev — Protagonist who is introduced in the novel immediately after being fired from a machine factory. Management claimed he did not work hard enough. He arrives at the foundation pit with the same work ethic … See more
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Apr 21, 2009 · The Foundation Pit is Platonov’s most overtly political book, written in direct response to the staggering brutalities of Stalin’s collectivization of Russian agriculture. It is …
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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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Is the foundation pit a grave or a foundation?
But the harder the team works, the deeper they dig, the more things go wrong, and it becomes clear that what is being dug is not a foundation but an immense grave. The Foundation Pit is Platonov’s most overtly political book, written in direct response to the staggering brutalities of Stalin’s collectivization of Russian agriculture.
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The Foundation Pit ( Russian: Котлован, romanized : Kotlovan) is a gloomy symbolic and semi-satirical novel by Andrei Platonov. The plot of the novel concerns a group of workers living in the early Soviet Union. They attempt to dig out a huge foundation pit on the base of which a gigantic house will be built for the country's proletarians.
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Last Updated September 5, 2023. Set in the 1920s, Andrei Patonovich Klimentov's The Foundation Pit is a literary work that combines the genre of dystopian fiction, political satire, and ethical allegory to present a bleak, bewildering perspective on the newly formed Soviet Union.
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Platonov's work is a representation of the conflict that arose between Russian individuals and the increasingly collectivized Soviet state in the late 1920s. Finished in 1930, the novel was not published in the Soviet Union until 1987 due to censorship. The Foundation Pit is considered a modernist work.
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In Andrey Platonov’s The Foundation Pit, a team of workers has been given the job of digging the foundation of an immense edifice, a palatial home for the perfect future that, they are convinced, is at hand.
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The novel depicts the struggles of Voschev, a worker who rebels against the collective ideology of the Soviet Union. He digs a foundation pit for a building that will house the proletariat, but the …
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The men go out to the new-mown field and begin to dig a foundation pit, which had been marked out by an engineer, to whose resourceful, attentive mind the world had always yielded; and if matter always yielded to precision and …
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Dec 6, 2010 · The book follows the lives of workers who dig a pit for a radiant future, but end up in a grave. It is a classic of Russian literature, translated by Robert and Elizabeth Chandler and …
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Dec 10, 2020 · Platonov's dystopian novel describes the lives of a group of Soviet workers who believe they are laying the foundations for a radiant future. As they work harder and dig deeper, their optimism turns to violence and it becomes …
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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 …
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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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This might be the one book, fact or fiction, I'd recommend about life in the early days of the Soviet Union.A group o…
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This might be the one book, fact or fiction, I'd recommend about life in the early days of the Soviet Union.A group of builders are digging out the foundations for a building. The symbolism is clear. What the building will be, is not ever made clear and may not even be important. The men are struggling, down in the foundations, with the implications of the new regime, which is under construction and which therefore has turned the way of life, the way of thinking and all relationships upside down. The future is deeply uncertain, the new world is under construction. That unknown, unvisualised future is not a source of hope or optimism but rather an ominous, looming presence over the novel.A stray young girl, a survivor from a bourgeois family, is taken-in and fed by the men. Because she, unlike the working men who reached adulthood under the old regime, is literate she becomes incredibly important as a mouthpiece for the new political values that dominate the press. An amazingly raw and bleak novel beautiful even in its own way. Highly recommended. Beware though reading it is like grating your own heart with a food grater. The most amazing thing is the language, just as Soviet foreign minister Molotov, while not drinking his cocktail, observed that peace is indivisible, change and struggle are also indivisible - everything is political so the choice of words, the use of language itself is deeply political and like Orwell's New Speak seeks to render certain ideas impossible and others inevitable. Of course it is all allegorical and I understand that certain people don't like allegory, but that's their loss.
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I read great swathes of this book as absurdist black comedy, and kept imagining the events portrayed as scenes in a …
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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, and by the characters themselves. There is very little breathing room in this book; an arid completely humanly defined atmosphere pervades the book. All of nature is reduced to a human apprehension of its utility, or lack thereof. It is a portrayal of life on earth as a machine existence: bloodless, emotionless, structured by simplistic reason. Yet still I found it funny! Absurdly funny.My laughter puzzles me. While I think the humor was intentional, when I look at a photograph of the author I am not so sure. Dour Russian; the weight of the world dragging down his jowls prematurely. But humorists do not always laugh themselves. Sometimes the humor reveals so much that is tragic and meaningless that there is no laughter upon return; the laughter so deep and meaningful, so drenched in tragic fatalism, that it can not vent itself from the depths of one’s soul. There is just a subsonic barely perceptible quaking. This is what I suspect happened in Platonov’s case. He set out to write an allegorical satire of the horrors he witnessed, and in the process found himself so bound up in those horrors, horrors perpetuated by an ideology he once believed in (and still did, I suspect, in his idealism), that satire itself became far too constraining, and even his own reasoning abilities could not handle the influx …
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