Soul by and Other Stories Andrey Platonov Laurie Essig Turkmenistan

Turkmenistan

In The Long Hangover

которую он так никогда и не напишет

A Double Life tells the story of Cecily

Soul by and Other Stories Andrey Platonov Laurie Essig Turkmenistan'For the mind, everthing is in the future' Platonov once wrote; 'for the heart, everything is in the past'. The protagonist of Soul is a young man torn between these opposing desires, sent as a kind of missionary to bring the values of modern Russia to his childhood home town in Central Asia. In this strange, haunting novella, as well as in the seven stories that accompany it, a rediscovered master of twentieth century Russian literature is shown at