The Foundation Pit
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| Originally published | 1968 |
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| Authors | Andrei Platonov |
| Original language | Russian |
| Page count | 150 |
| Genres | Novel |
| Historical Fiction | |
| Dystopian Fiction | |
| Publishers | Literary Museum of the Institute of Russian Literature |
| New York Review Books | |
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| ID | 2357814 |
About The Foundation Pit
The Foundation Pit is a gloomy symbolic and semi-satirical novel by Andrei Platonov. The plot of the novel concerns a group of workers living in the early Soviet Union. They attempt to dig out a huge foundation pit on the base of which a gigantic house will be built for the country's proletarians.