Publisher's Synopsis
Andrei Platonov's The Foundation Pit registers a dissonant mixture of utopian longings and despair. It provides essential background to Platonov's parody of the mainstream Soviet production novel. In addition to an overview of the work's key themes, it discusses their place within Platonov's oeuvre as a whole, his troubled relations with literary officialdom, the work's ideological and political background, and key critical responses since the work's first publication.
