this book looks super<\/p>\n
All these works appear at first glance\u2013especially to a reader unversed in Soviet history\u2013to be highly surreal. This impression, however, is misleading; they contain barely an incident or a passage that does not directly relate to some real event or publication from these years. Platonov\u2019s focus is not on some private dream world but on political and historical reality\u2013a reality so extraordinary as to be barely credible.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
buy book here<\/a>; cf also my constant refrain<\/a>, \u201c\u2018Realism\u2019 only works for people whose worldviews are already accepted as realistic. The rest of us must make do with genre\u201d; via TK Bloom<\/a><\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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