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Original Title:	Котлован (Kotlovan)
ISBN:	0810111454 (ISBN13: 9780810111455)
Edition Language:	English
Setting:	U.S.S.R.
Literary Awards:	Preis der Leipziger Buchmesse Nominee for Übersetzung (2017)

The Foundation Pit

Andrei Platonov

Paperback | Pages: 141 pages

Rating: 3.77 | 4136 Users | 258 Reviews

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Title	:	The Foundation Pit
Author	:	Andrei Platonov
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	Anniversary Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 141 pages
Published	:	June 8th 1994 by Northwestern University Press (first published 1969)
Categories	:	Fiction. Cultural. Russia. Literature. Russian Literature. Classics

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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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A nightmare of language suborned to meaninglessness. Double-speak eating its own tail before diffusing out into void and psychotic referencelessness. All in service to some end without means: the bright burning light of total totalitarianism.

We always believe that the bright future is just around the corner and we wait for it to comeon 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.

Platonovs profoundly unique novel, The Foundation Pit, is subversive to its very core. Every possible trope of state sanctioned literature and state ideology is upended, inverted, questioned, and ultimately proven to be empty, desolate, and destructive. Platonov achieves this effect through his use of language, often so idiotic that it is brilliant. He disfigures language the way total collectivization disfigured the countryside, forcefully removing it of its soul. Along these lines, Platonov

It has been two years since I read this novel and unlike all the other books I have listed on Goodreads I never wrote a review for this one. I found the book too overwhelming. There was too much I wanted to say about it, and I knew I wouldn't be able to do it justice, because however much I did say, there would always be something left out. In short, I will state that it is the strangest and most disturbing novel I have ever read, but 'strange' and 'disturbing' in a unique way, not in the way

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Platonov writes with a minimalist style in a stark Russian landscape in the midst of the absolute absurdity of a mindless Communist bureaucracy killing its people to dig a vast foundation pit in the middle of nowhere. The net effect, like the writing of Samuel Beckett, is vulnerable characters searching without hope for meaning, which is absent or unfathomable or beyond their reach. This novel is a moving foray into the theatre of the absurd as the characters deal with the heartbreak and death