Временное и вневременное у Платонова: предварительные соображения

After Andrei Platonovʼs main texts Chevengur and ‘Kotlovan’ had “returned” to Russian culture the reception of his work underwent several stages. While the first studies were dedicated to the poetic structure and the genesis of his texts, the perestroika period initiated inquiries into their utopian and political background. Later on, one could observe an expansion into the fields of philosophy, mythopoetics, comparativism and anthropology. Obviously, in the approach to Platonov there is a tendency to transcend the narrow frame of the Soviet context and to look at him as a classic of Russian literature whose work reflects “timeless” problems of human experience of the 20th century.