Literary Colloquium - Sasha Gontchar, "Language as a Tomb of Reification: the Problem of the Human in Andrei Platonov's The Foundation Pit"
Date and Time
September 19, 2013
06:30PM - 06:30PM EDT
Location
by invitation only
In this presentation, Alexandre Gontchar examines how Andrei Platonov’s stylistic experiments in his novel The Foundation Pit (1930) expose some inherent contradictions in how dialectical materialism conceives of the human.