The Foundation Pit (Cyclopedia of Literary Characters)
At a glance:
- Author: Andrei Platonovich Klimentov
- First Published: 1935
- Type of Work: Novel
- Type of Plot:
- Time of Work: The early 1930’s
- Setting: a provincial city and nearby village in Russia
- Genres: Long fiction, Satire, Surrealist literature
- Subjects: Class conflict, Communism or communists, Politics, Revolutions, 1930’s, Russia or Russian people, Proletariat, Construction or construction workers
- Locales: Russia
Characters Discussed
Voshchev (VOH-shchehv), a former machinist, now a laborer in the crew digging a foundation for a multiple housing unit in the Soviet Union in the early 1930’s. At the age of thirty, he lost his job because of a tendency to “stop and think.” Amid the changes in the Soviet Union designed to build the new society after the revolution, he feels the need to understand the “sense of the action” and the enduring meaning of life. He sees suffering everywhere, and his main quality is compassion. He strikes the death blow to the activist as punishment for...
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