PLATONOV ANDREI (1899-1951) Chevengur Preface by Mikhail Geller. Paris: Ymca-Press, [1972].

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– 376 p.: portrait; 19x13.5 cm. In the publisher's illustrated cover by V. Chekrygin. Very good condition. Minor wear on the spine. Andrei Platonov's dystopian novel was written in the second half of the 1920s and partially published in periodicals of the time. A separate part of it was published under the title The Origin of the Master (1929), but the novel was never published in its entirety during the author's lifetime. In 1972, Chevengur, without the chapter 'The Origin of the Master,' was published simultaneously in French and Italian translations, and then in Russian by Ymca-Press. In the USSR, the novel could only be published during the years of perestroika: in 1988, it was published in the magazine Druzhba Narodov (Friendship of Peoples), and then as a separate book. The first complete edition of the novel.

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