This is notjust a quasi-formalistconceit it implicates the reader ethically in the world inhabited by the characters.

Inverting Shkolvskii's famous notion of defamiliarization, Olga Meerson argues that a key feature of Platonov's prose is 'automatization, non-estrangement, or re-familiarization' (p. With contributions from some of the world's leading Platonov scholars, the volume contains many fascinating insights into Platonov's writing: Valerii Vuigin reflects on riddles and enigma Robert Chandler shares some of his thoughts as a translator Thomas Seifrid opens up ways of thinking about time and the novel and Marina Koch-Lubouchkine traces concepts of emptiness through Dzhan and the play Fourteen Little Red Huts. A Hun? dred Years of Andrei Platonov contains eleven papers delivered at a conference held in Oxford in 2000, and deals largely with the close study of four texts, Chevengur, The Foundation Pit, Dzhan, and Happy Moscow.

Outside Russia, a number of books have been published in various languages, and Platonov is the subject of several important journal articles. Books and collections of essays appear with reasonable regularity in Moscow and St Petersburg, and occasionally in provincial cities. Scholarly editions of his works are at last being published in Russia, albeit fitfully,and Harvill is to be commended for its commitment to a series of English translations. This and his undoubted, but oft-disputed, significance in Soviet literature have led to a considerable number of publications over recent years. 1999 was not only the year of Pushkin and Nabokov, but also of Platonov. (Essays in Poetics, 26 (Autumn, 2001), Platonov Special Issue in Two Volumes) Keele: Keele Students Union Press. University of Nottingham Elizabeth Boa A Hundred Years ofAndrei Platonov. The volume also has a sequence of highly informative appendices: the media and migrants research centres, other institutions, and prizes bibliographies for groups and individuals along with short C Vs an index ofnames notes on the editor and contributors and on illustrations.

In the main, however, the case for intercultural literature as a coherent ifhighly complex field of study is convincingly argued. MLRy 98.1, 2003 257 over realist literature.

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