Soul

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and Other Stories
Platonov, Andrey
Vertaald door: Robert and Elizabeth Chandler, with Katia Grigoruk, Angela Livingstone, Olga Meerson and Eric Naiman

Vintage Classics, 400 blz., paperback, 2013, ISBN 9780099455134

Introduction and notes by Robert Chandler
Afterword by John Berger

'For the mind, everthing is in the future' Platonov once wrote; 'for the heart, everything is in the past'. The protagonist of Soul is a young man torn between these opposing desires, sent as a kind of missionary to bring the values of modern Russia to his childhood home town in Central Asia. In this strange, haunting novella, as well as in the seven stories that accompany it, a rediscovered master of twentieth century Russian literature is shown at his wisest and most humane.

Andrey Platonov was born near Voronezh in 1899. From 1918 he published articles in the "thick" Moscow journals before becoming a war correspondent during the Great Patriotic War of 1941-45. He died in 1946 and it was not until the 1980s that his great novels The Foundation Pit and Chevengur were finally published in Russia.

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