《美好而粗暴的世界》是苏联作家普拉东诺夫的小说集，其中收录了《叶皮凡水闸》《以太通道》《驿站村》《幸福的莫斯科娃》《美好而粗暴的世界》五篇小说。除《美好而粗暴的世界》外均为首次译介给中国读者。这五篇小说分别属于普拉东诺夫的三个艺术阶段，题材从科幻到历史最终回归现实，展现了作家整个创作生涯的思想变化。 《以太通道》是对“未来新世界”的一次具象化描绘，对这个新世界来说物质上并非无法实现，真正的难题在于如何在精神世界找到通道。于是作家将笔触伸向了历史，创作了《叶皮凡水闸》和《驿站村》，通过“历史现实”来思考人民精神家园的根源，探究心灵世界蜕变的方法。《幸福的莫斯科娃》则是一次新世界中精神与物质相融合的尝试，但是在长久的探索后，最终的结果却是归于现实的宁静，心灵世界的蜕变依然难以实现。《美好而粗暴的世界》则以现实的宁静为起点，通过人与社会的位置关系，展现了现实世界与“未来新世界”之间的巨大鸿沟。
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Andrei Platonov, August 28, 1899 – January 5, 1951, was the pen name of Andrei Platonovich Klimentov, a Soviet author whose works anticipate existentialism. Although Platonov was a Communist, his works were banned in his own lifetime for their skeptical attitude toward collectivization and other Stalinist policies. From 1918 through 1921, his most intensive period as a writer, he published dozens of poems (an anthology appeared in 1922), several stories, and hundreds of articles and essays, adopting in 1920 the Platonov pen-name by which he is best-known. With remarkably high energy and intellectual precocity he wrote confidently across a wide range of topics including literature, art, cultural life, science, philosophy, religion, education, politics, the civil war, foreign relations, economics, technology, famine, and land reclamation, amongst others. His famous works include the novels The Foundation Pit and Chevengur.
