TY - BOOK ID - 78647242 TI - Fourteen Little Red Huts and Other Plays AU - Platonov, Andrei, AU - Chandler, Robert AU - Irwin, Jesse AU - Larsen, Susan PY - 2016 SN - 0231543530 9780231543538 9780231181297 0231181299 9780231181280 0231181280 PB - New York, NY DB - UniCat KW - Russian drama. KW - Russian literature KW - Russian drama KW - Théâtre russe KW - 1900-1999 UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:78647242 AB - In this essential collection of Andrei Platonov's plays, the noted Platonov translator Robert Chandler edits and introduces The Hurdy-Gurdy (translated by Susan Larsen), Fourteen Little Red Huts (translated by Chandler), and Grandmother's Little Hut (translated by Jesse Irwin). Written in 1930 and 1933, respectively, The Hurdy-Gurdy and Fourteen Little Red Huts constitute an impassioned and penetrating response to Stalin's assault on the Soviet peasantry. They reflect the political urgency of Bertolt Brecht and anticipate the tragic farce of Samuel Beckett but play out through dialogue and characterization that is unmistakably Russian. This volume also includes Grandmother's Little Hut, an unfinished play that represents Platonov's later, gentler work. ER -