Platonov Story

By E.J. Van Lanen | October 19th, 2007 | Articles | 0 Comment

This week’s New Yorker has a short story by Andrei Platonov, author of the fantastically bleak The Foundation Pit. In the gloom of nature, a man with a hunting rifle was walking through sparse forest. The hunter’s face was a little pockmarked, but he was handsome and, for the time being, still young. At this time ...