The Excavation. In a Wonderful and Furious World

A native of a provincial working-class family, Platonov wholeheartedly embraced the October Revolution, - and the fact that his works convey an unprecedentedly powerful personal worldview tragedy is all the more interesting, vividly expressed in The Excavation. The very idea... of constructing a Universal Proletarian House turns The Excavation into a dystopia shocking in its power, where details of reality take on incredible, caricatured, exaggerated proportions. This astonishing house, conceived as a symbol of a communist earthly paradise, in reality becomes a graveyard of unattainable fantasies. The collection also includes other stories and tales by the author: The Secret Man, Dzhon, The Sandy Teacher, The Doubting Makar, At the Dawn of Foggy Youth, In a Wonderful and Furious World.