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Samenvatting

Like so many Soviet writers, Andrei Platonov saw his work suppressed in his lifetime. Since then, however, it has established itself, both at home and abroad, as an extraordinary and haunting achievement of twentieth-century literature. For Nadezhda Mandelstam and Joseph Brodsky, Platonov was the writer who most profoundly registered the spiritual ravages of Soviet life. For a new generation of experimental Russian writers he figures as a remarkable linguistic innovator, the master of what has been called "alternative realism.