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The Greatest Russian Writer You've Never Read: Andrei Platonov

First Posted: 04/20/10 06:12 AM ET Updated: 05/25/11 04:35 PM ET

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Andrei Platonov

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An anti-Stalinist author who died in obscurity in 1951 may be the greatest Russian writer of the last century, his English translator Robert Chandler explains to Daniel Kalder

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An anti-Stalinist author who died in obscurity in 1951 may be the greatest Russian writer of the last century, his English translator Robert Chandler explains to Daniel Kalder...
An anti-Stalinist author who died in obscurity in 1951 may be the greatest Russian writer of the last century, his English translator Robert Chandler explains to Daniel Kalder...
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Ljilja
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04:55 PM on 02/22/2010
I love Russian literature but have never heard of Platonov. I am intrigued and will be curious to see if the hype is true.

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TheBaffler
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04:28 AM on 02/19/2010
"...may be the greatest Russian writer of the last century, his English translator Robert Chandler explains..."

Gee, what incentive could the translator have for saying such a thing?
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TheBaffler
a long the riverrun
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04:38 AM on 02/19/2010
Further hubris...this translator audaciously reviewed his own books on Amazon, naturally giving them 5 stars!
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Oleg1
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01:08 AM on 02/21/2010
Baffler, this takes a planet-sized amount of chutzpah to comment on works of a writer you've never read, or even heard of!
Ah, the joys of anonymous Internet.
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TheBaffler
a long the riverrun
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06:02 AM on 02/21/2010
That's utterly irrelevant to my point. What astounding hypocrisy. This isn't the first time you've manufactured a nit to pick, just to have a nit to pick. Surely you can find legitimate things about which to gripe.
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bridgeman
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11:49 AM on 02/22/2010
LOL! fanned!
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