Ulbandus

Produced under the auspices of the Slavic Department at Columbia University, ULBANDUS, The Slavic Review of Columbia University is a peer-reviewed journal devoted to refreshing, adventurous, and provocative work on topics in Slavic literatures and cultures. Each issue is devoted to a topic or theme chosen by the editorial board and announced in a Call for Submissions in the late fall. We welcome submissions from faculty, graduate students and independent scholars in any field, even superficially unrelated ones. Though faculty members sit on the advisory board, the production, editing, and management of ULBANDUS is carried out entirely by the graduate students in the Columbia Slavic Department.

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ULBANDUS 14 | 2012

Andrei Platonov
Style, Context, Meaning

Katharine Holt, Editor

Acknowledgments ... iii

Note on Transliteration ... iv

Editor’s Introduction ... v
KATHARINE HOLT

PART ONE: INTERPRETATIONS

Platonov’s Chevengur Between Defamiliarization and Compassion ... 3
AAGE HANSEN-LÖVE

The “Common Proletarian House,” or “Essessar, Our Mother” ... 37NATALIA DUZHINA

Kotlovan: Translation Failures As Interpretation Clues ... 48
OLGA MEERSON

A Groundless Foundation Pit ... 61
TORA LANE

Ekphrastic Metaphysics of Dzhan ... 76
NARIMAN SKAKOV

Platonov’s Last Word: The Magic Ring Reconsidered ... 93
ROBERT CHANDLER

Scenes from “Bezruchka” 105
Original illustrations by BELA SHAYEVICH

PART TWO: CONTEXTS

Platonov and Reshetnikov ... 111
BORIS GASPAROV

The Development of Platonov’s Narrative Perspective
in the Context of the 1920s ... 130
ROBERT HODEL

Platonov and His Contemporaries: Dem’ian Bednyi ... 156
NATALIA KORNIENKO

Platonov and Stalin: Dialogues in Double Dutch ... 202
EVGENY DOBRENKO

Platonov, Incommensurability, and the 1937 Pushkin Jubilee ... 216
JONATHAN BROOKS PLATT

PART THREE: SYNTHESES

“A Mixture of Living Creatures”: Man and Animal in the
Works of Andrei Platonov ... 251
HANS GÜNTHER

Power and the Other in the Dramatic Works of Andrei Platonov ... 273
NATALIA POLTAVTSEVA

Platonov’s Blindness ... 289
THOMAS SEIFRID

Platonov and the Open Text ... 302
PHILIP ROSS BULLOCK

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