Happy Moscow

Name: Happy Moscow
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ISBN: 9781590175859

ISBN-10: 1590175859

ISBN-13: 9781590175859

Edition: 2012

Authors: Andrey Platonov, Elizabeth Chandler, Nadya Bourova, Robert Chandler

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In the mid-1930s Stalin announced that “life has become better, life has become merrier”; these words were endlessly repeated on the radio, in newspapers, on posters and placards. InHappy MoscowAndrey Platonov exposes the gulf between Stalin’s rhetoric and the reality of the time. The heroine, Moscow Chestnova, is an orphaned girl who has been named after the fairy-tale Soviet capital. A bold, gifted, and glamorous parachutist, she joins the Soviet elite, but a parachuting accident is only the beginning of her fall...and it is not only she who falls. In styles ranging from the grotesque to the mock sentimental to the absurd, Platonov shows how language itself is being debased. At some point…

Book details

List price: $17.95
Copyright year: 2012
Publisher: New York Review of Books, Incorporated, The
Publication date: 11/13/2012
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 280
Size: 5.00" wide x 8.00" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 0.594
Language: English

Elizabeth Chandler is a pseudonym for Mary Claire Helldorfer. She is the author of the Kissed by an Angel and Dark Secrets series. She lives in Baltimore, Maryland.



Introduction to Happy Moscow


Happy Moscow


Around Happy Moscow


The Moscow Violin


On the First Socialist Tragedy


Father


Love for the Motherland: Or, the Sparrows Journey


The Text and the Translation


Notes


Further Reading