Quote of the day
War is not its own end, except in some catastrophic slide into absolute damnation. It's peace that's wanted. Some better peace than the one you started with.
Andrei Platonov

Born: August 28, 1899
Died: January 5, 1951 (aged 51)
Bio: Andrei Platonov was the pen name of Andrei Platonovich Klimentov, a Soviet Russian writer, playwright, and poet, whose works anticipate existentialism.
Known for:
- The Foundation Pit
- Chevengur
- Happy Moscow
- The Fierce and Beautiful World
- The Return and Other Stories