[HN Gopher] People person: the greatness of Andrey Platonov
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       People person: the greatness of Andrey Platonov
        
       Author : conanxin
       Score  : 51 points
       Date   : 2024-07-16 14:13 UTC (8 hours ago)
        
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       | tama_sala wrote:
       | Potato/ Jerusalem artichoke ? ("Erdapfel") is my fav
        
       | lovegrenoble wrote:
       | Thank you, will read for shure
        
       | antonkar wrote:
       | The Foundation Pit (Kotlovan in Russian) is great and Kafka-like:
       | the Soviet people are digging a giant hole no one knows or
       | remembers why and how deep. Eventually people start dying from
       | the hard work and they are buried in the hole where others
       | continue working
        
       | m463 wrote:
       | had to look up bowdlerized...
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       | > Expurgation. An expurgation of a work, also known as a
       | bowdlerization or fig-leaf edition, is a form of censorship that
       | involves purging anything deemed noxious or offensive from an
       | artistic work or other type of writing or media
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       | It wasn't clear if original version existed? I think of the
       | bukowski mess
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       | https://www.pbs.org/newshour/arts/poetry/bukowksis-poems-wer...
        
         | pvg wrote:
         | In this case, the much overused 'censored' is really more
         | accurate but like with most such works, unmangled versions were
         | published in 90s after the fall of the Soviet Union. There's a
         | tangential mention on the wikipedia page
         | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrei_Platonov#Official_suppo...
        
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