should be recognized as the first serious surrealist. The Foundation Pit is considered a modernist work. Finished in 1930, the novel was not published in the Soviet Union until 1987 due to censorship. Platonov's work is a representation of the conflict that arose between Russian individuals and the increasingly collectivized Soviet state in the late 1920s. The novel is often compared to George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four and Aldous Huxley's Brave New World, although critics say that The Foundation Pit can't be regarded as a dystopian novel, as dystopian novels describe a catastrophic future, while Platonov's work describes the present, and the author's attitude cannot be called unambiguously critical. In terms of creative works, Platonov depicted one of the first state-controlled dystopias of the 20th century.
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