The Fierce and Beautiful World (New York Review Books Classics)

About this book

This collection of Platonovs short fiction brings together seven works drawn from the whole of his career. It includes the harrowing novella Dzahn ("Soul") in which a young man returns to his Asian birthplace to find his people deprived not only of food and dwelling but of memory and speech and "The Potudan River " Platonovs most celebrated story. In December 2007 The Fierce and Beautiful World will be superseded by Soul (978-159017-254-4) a new translation of eight of Platonovs stories.