Article ID Journal Published Year Pages File Type
1103957 Russian Literature 2013 29 Pages PDF
Abstract

The musicality and sound imagery of Platonovʼs works have for a long time already attracted the attention of philologists. Lately, the peculiarity of expression by means of sounds, sound repetition and “sound-writing” (zvukopisʼ) are increasingly being researched in connection with the specificity of anagrammatism, conscious or unconscious collision of words in the sound stream. The analysis of the sound structure of Platonovʼs works reveals that the rich phonetic organization of the text, the sound associations, repetitions, paronyms and anagrams significantly reinforces the artistic expression. There is a clear tendency to bring words together on the basis of sound similarities and to create anagrams-leitmotivs from key words and names. In his early works Platonov often concealed the clandestine names of friends or family members in the text, in later works the anagrams often denoted important concepts of his world outlook.

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