Fourteen little red huts and other plays / Andrei Platonov ; edited by Robert Chandler ; translated by Robert Chandler, Jesse Irwin, and Susan Larsen ; with notes by Robert Chandler and Natalya Duzhina.
The hurdy-gurdy : a play in three acts, six scenes (October-November 1930) / translated by Susan Larsen in 1989 and revised by Robert Chandler and Jesse Irwin in 2016 -- Additional scene / translated by Robert Chandler -- Fourteen little red huts : a tragedy (1933) -- Grandmother's little hut (an unfinished play) (1938-1940).
Summary:
"In this essential collection of Andrei Platonov's plays, the noted Platonov translator Robert Chandler edits and introduces The Hurdy-Gurdy (translated by Susan Larsen), Fourteen Little Red Huts (translated by Chandler), and Grandmother's Little Hut (translated by Jesse Irwin). Written in 1930 and 1933, respectively, The Hurdy-Gurdy and Fourteen Little Red Huts constitute an impassioned and penetrating response to Stalin's assault on the Soviet peasantry. They reflect the political urgency of Bertolt Brecht and anticipate the tragic farce of Samuel Beckett but play out through dialogue and characterization that is unmistakably Russian. This volume also includes Grandmother's Little Hut, an unfinished play that represents Platonov's later, gentler work."-- Provided by publisher.
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