#  Literary Colloquium - Sasha Gontchar, "Language as a Tomb of Reification: the Problem of the Human in Andrei Platonov's The Foundation Pit" 

 



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 **September 19, 2013** 

 06:30PM - 06:30PM EDT 

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 **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.



 

 

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