Chevengur

Andrei Platonov · 1899–1951 · Russia

Originally Chevengur (Russian)

Why it matters

Wandering revolutionaries attempt to build instant communism in a remote Russian town, with surreal and devastating results. Platonov's grotesque, linguistically strange epic of utopian ambition curdling into absurdity.

At a glance

Platonov's signature broken syntax stretched across a full-length surreal epic.