The foundation pit
Платонов, Андрей Платонович, 1899-1951, author (Author), Mirra Ginsburg (Translator) / Andreĭ Platonovich Platonov (Author)
The plot of the novel concerns a group of workers living in the early Soviet Union. They attempt to dig out a huge foundation pit on the base of which a gigantic house will be built for the country's proletarians. The workers dig each day but slowly cease to understand the meaning of their work. The enormous foundation pit sucks out all of their physical and mental energy
Print Book, English, 1975
E. P. Dutton & Co., Inc., New York, 1975