Andrei Platonov
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Andrei Platonov in 1938
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| Born | Andrei Platonovich Klimentov 28 August 1899 Voronezh, Russian Empire |
| Died | 5 January 1951 (aged 51) Moscow, USSR |
| Occupation | Novelist, playwright, poet, engineer |
| Nationality | Soviet Russian |
| Period | 1919–1951 |
| Genre | Novel, short story, poetry, journalism |
Andrei Platonov (Russian: Андре́й Плато́нов, IPA: [ɐnˈdrʲej plɐˈtonəf]; August 28 [O.S. August 16] 1899 – January 5, 1951) was the pen name of Andrei Platonovich Klimentov (Russian: Андре́й Плато́нович Климе́нтов), a Soviet Russian writer, playwright, and poet, whose works anticipate existentialism. Although Platonov was a Communist, most of his works were banned in his own lifetime for their skeptical attitude toward collectivization and other Stalinist policies, as well as for its experimental, avant-garde form. His famous works include the novels The Foundation Pit (Котлован) and Chevengur (Чевенгур)
He was born in the settlement of Yamskaia Sloboda on the outskirts of Voronezh in the Chernozem region of central Russia. His father was a metal fitter (and amateur inventor) employed in the railroad workshops and his mother was the daughter of a watchmaker. He attended a local parish school and completed his primary education at a four-year city school and began work at age thirteen, with such jobs as office clerk at a local insurance company, smelter at a pipe factory, assistant machinist, warehouseman, and on the railroad. Following the 1917 revolutions, he studied electrical technology at the Voronezh Polytechnic Institute. When civil war broke out he assisted his father on trains delivering troops and supplies and clearing snow.
He had also begun writing poems, submitting to papers in Moscow and elsewhere and was writing prolifically for local periodicals, including Zheleznyi put' (Railroad), the paper of the local railway workers' union, Krasnaia derevnia (Red countryside) and Voronezhskaia kommuna (Voronezh commune), official papers of the Voronezh Communist Party, and Kuznitsa, national journal of the Smithy group of proletarian writers.
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