Excavation. In a beautiful and furious world

The native of the provincial working family, Platonov with all his heart accepted the October Revolution, and the fact that his works with unprecedented power transmitted a personal worldview tragedy, unusually pronounced in the “foundation pit”, was more interesting. The very idea of ​​building a “general-player house” turns the “foundation pit” into an anti-utopia shocking with its power, where the details of reality gain incredible, caricatured and prescribed sizes. This amazing house, conceived as a symbol of the communist “earthly paradise”, actually becomes a cemetery of pipe fantasies.
The collection also included other nales and stories of the author: “The Infinite Man”, “Jan”, “Sandless Teacher”, “doubted Makar ”,“ At the dawn of foggy youth ”,“ In the beautiful and fierce world ”