Andrei Platonov

Andrei Platonov (Russian: Андрей Платонов) was the pen name of Andrei Platonovich Klimentov (Russian: Андрей Платонович Климентов) (born August 28 [O.S. August 16] 1899 – died January 5, 1951), a Soviet Russian writer, playwright, and poet, whose works anticipate existentialism.