Robert Chandler
Biographic Data
| ID | 5981399 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Robert Chandler |
| GIVEN NAMES | Robert |
| FAMILY NAME | Chandler |
| SIGNATURE | CHANDLER R |
| AFFILIATIONS | Hon. Research Fellow, Queen Mary University, London, UK |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 9 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 9 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2001 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Years with Platonov
The article’s main theme is the author’s personal story of how he first came to know the work of Andrei Platonov, and how he then went on, in the course of 50 years, to translate into English a large part of Platonov’s legacy, beginning with his retellings of traditional folktales (skazki) and ending with the novel Chevengur. The author talks about his own first impression of the writer’s unusual style, the people he met through translating Plato…
Russia is Burning
Bread for the Soul
The aspiration to create a better, fairer world is a central theme in Platonov’s work. In 1927 Maksim Gorky had praised Platonov’s first collection of stories. In the late 1920s and early 1930s Platonov had asked Gorky for help in getting work published. In early 1934, however, Gorky was able to arrange for Platonov to be included in a “brigade” of writers to be sent to Central Asia; the intention was to publish a collective work in celebration o…
Igor Golomstock (1929-2017)
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Dubrovsky
Russian Short Stories from Pushkin to Buida
From the reign of the Tsars in the early 19th century to the collapse of the Soviet Union and beyond, the short story has long occupied a central place in Russian culture. Included are pieces from many of the acknowledged masters of Russian literature - including Pushkin, Turgenev, Dostoyevsky, Tolstoy, and Solzhenitsyn - alongside tales by long-suppressed figures such as the subversive Kryzhanowsky and the surrealist Shalamov. Whether written in…
Seven Stories
Happy Moscow
The Return and Other Stories
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The Return and Other Stories
Happy Moscow
Dubrovsky
Russian Short Stories from Pushkin to Buida
From the reign of the Tsars in the early 19th century to the collapse of the Soviet Union and beyond, the short story has long occupied a central place in Russian culture. Included are pieces from many of the acknowledged masters of Russian literature - including Pushkin, Turgenev, Dostoyevsky, Tolstoy, and Solzhenitsyn - alongside tales by long-suppressed figures such as the subversive Kryzhanowsky and the surrealist Shalamov. Whether written in…
Seven Stories
Bread for the Soul
The aspiration to create a better, fairer world is a central theme in Platonov’s work. In 1927 Maksim Gorky had praised Platonov’s first collection of stories. In the late 1920s and early 1930s Platonov had asked Gorky for help in getting work published. In early 1934, however, Gorky was able to arrange for Platonov to be included in a “brigade” of writers to be sent to Central Asia; the intention was to publish a collective work in celebration o…
Igor Golomstock (1929-2017)
An abstract is not available for this content. As you have access to this content, full HTML content is provided on this page. A PDF of this content is also available in through the ‘Save PDF’ action button
Russia is Burning
Years with Platonov
The article’s main theme is the author’s personal story of how he first came to know the work of Andrei Platonov, and how he then went on, in the course of 50 years, to translate into English a large part of Platonov’s legacy, beginning with his retellings of traditional folktales (skazki) and ending with the novel Chevengur. The author talks about his own first impression of the writer’s unusual style, the people he met through translating Plato…
Art (5 works) · Computer Science (2 works) · Literature (2 works) · Philosophy (2 works) · Russian Literature and Bakhtin Studies (2 works) · Action (physics (1 work) · Business (1 work) · Cinema and Media Studies (1 work) · Content (measure theory (1 work) · Cybernetics and Technology in Society (1 work)