The Fierce and Beautiful World: Stories by Andrei Platonov (Paperback, 2000)

\""The Fierce and Beautiful World\"" by Andrei Platonov; Introduction by Tatyana Tolstaya, published in 2000 in the United States by The New York Review of Books, in paperback, 268pp, ISBN 0940322331\nCondition Notes: Very good condition, neat, clean & tidy copy, well looked-after. There's a very very faint crease line across the top corner for most of the pages in the introduction section (barely noticeable)\nAbout this book: Like so many Soviet writers, Andrei Platonov saw his work suppressed in his lifetime. Since then, however, it has established itself, both a 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 linquistic innovator, the master of what has been called \""alternative realism\"". Lyrical, strange, yet sh)