A review by theciz
The Foundation Pit by Andrey Platonov

3.0

I said I was going to stop reading abstract satires, but here we are. Thankfully, the first few pages excepted, this was a lot more comprehensible. It does, however, have a lot of references to Soviet culture and 1930s Russia, and hence the need for copious footnotes. And for once, an afterword rather than a foreword, that actually provides more, useful context for the story. Overall, I understood what was going on, but I did kind of feel like it suffered a bit as literature with all the extra context I needed. Still, it was certainly interesting.