Happy 😀 Moscow

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✅ In the mid-1️⃣9️⃣3️⃣0️⃣s Stalin announced that life 🧬 has become better, life 🧬 has become merrier; these words were endlessly 🔄 repeated 🔁 on the radio 📻️, in newspapers 📰, on posters and ➕ placards. In Happy 😀 Moscow Andrey Platonov exposes the gulf between Stalins rhetoric and ➕ the reality of the time ⏱️. The heroine 🦸, Moscow Chestnova, is an orphaned girl 👧 who has been named 📛 after the fairy 🧚‍♀️-tale Soviet capital. A bold, gifted 🎁, and ➕ glamorous parachutist, she 👤👩 joins the Soviet elite, but a parachuting accident is only the beginning 🆕 of her 👤👩⬅️ fall... and ➕ it is not ❌️ only she 👤👩 who falls. In styles ranging from the grotesque to the mock sentimental to the absurd, Platonov shows how language itself is being debased.
At some point 👈️ Platonov evidently realized that his 👤👨⬅️ novel was unpublishable and ➕ abandoned work ⚙️ on it. The Russian ​🇷🇺​ text was first 🥇 published only in 1️⃣9️⃣9️⃣1️⃣. This present 🎁 collection contains not ❌️ only a revised translation of Happy 😀 Moscow but also some closely related works ⚙️ in different genres: a film 🎞️ script, a remarkably prescient essay about ecological catastrophe, and ➕ two 2️⃣ short stories. The appearance of the same characters and ➕ motifs in different works ⚙️ creates a strange effect - as if the characters are truly alive and ➕ we 👥⬅️ are being granted unexpected glimpses of them ➡️👥 from different vantage points 👈️.

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