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The Soviet writer Andrei Platonov (1899 1951) belongs to a Russian philosophical tradition that includes such figures as Vladimir Solov’ev, Mikhail Bakhtin and Boris Pasternak. This study investigates the interrelation of themes, imagery and the use of language in his prose. Thomas Seifrid shows how Platonov was particularly influenced by Russian utopian thought of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, and how his world view was also shaped by its implicit dialogue with the ‘official’ Soviet philosophy of Marxism-Leninism, and later with Stalinist utopianism. He discusses how in Platonov’s masterpieces of the late 1920s and early 1930s linguistic parody comes together with existential angst and dystopian doubts about the course of Soviet history. The study concludes with consideration of the works Platonov wrote from 1934 to 1951, in the age of socialist realism. In these, he manoeuvred to preserve some of the essentials of his earlier world view and verbal manner while fusing them to the literary formulae that were expected of him.

Filosofie in de literatuur --- Philosophie dans la littérature --- Philosophy in literature --- Réalisme socialiste dans la littérature --- Socialist realism in literature --- Socialistische realisme in de literatuur --- Philosophy in literature. --- Socialist realism in literature. --- Platonov, Andrei Platonovich, --- Criticism and interpretation --- Platonov, Andreĭ Platonovich, --- Philosophie dans la littérature --- Réalisme socialiste dans la littérature --- Platonov, Andreĭ Platonovich, --- Platonov, Andreï Platonovich --- Platonov, Andre i Platonovich, 1899-1951 - Criticism and interpretation. --- Arts and Humanities --- Literature --- Platonov, Andreĭ Platonovich, - 1899-1951 - Criticism and interpretation --- Criticism and interpretation. --- Платонов, Андрей Платонович, --- Płatonow, Andriej, --- Platonow, Andrej, --- Платонов, Андрей, --- Platonov, Andreĭ, --- Климентов, Андрей Платонович, --- Klimentov, Andreĭ Platonovich, --- Платонов, А. --- Platonov, A. --- Platonov, Andrej, --- Platonov, Andrey, --- פלטונוב, אנדריי, --- Platonov, Andreĭ Platonovich --- Platonov, Andreĭ Platonovich, - 1899-1951