По небу полуночи: рассказы

Andreĭ Platonov (1899-1951) - pisatelʹ, chʹi͡a proza po-prezhnemu uskolʹzaet ot odnoznachnykh prochteniĭ. Inzhener, utopist, poėt zavodskikh okrain i stepnykh dorog, on sozdal mir, gde vera v svetloe budushchee stalkivaetsi͡a s nepodatlivoĭ prirodoĭ cheloveka, a vysokai͡a metafizika govorit i͡azykom narodnoĭ pritchi i detskogo lepeta. Geroi Platonova - stranniki i pravdoiskateli, oderzhimye toskoĭ po istine i li͡ubvi; ikh putʹ - ėto vechnoe "vzyskanie pogibshikh", popytka vernutʹ miru polnotu bytii͡a. Nastoi͡ashchiĭ sbornik okhvatyvaet rasskazy raznykh let, pozvoli͡ai͡a uvidetʹ ėvoli͡ut͡sii͡u platonovskogo metoda. Tridt͡satye otkryvai͡utsi͡a "Usomnivshimsi͡a Makarom" i vkli͡uchai͡ut rasskazy o li͡ubvi kak ėkzistent͡sialʹnom opyte - nemoĭ, razluchai͡ushcheĭ, nevozmozhnoĭ. Voennai͡a proza lishena geroicheskoĭ ritoriki: zdesʹ chastnai͡a sudʹba vpisana v obshchui͡u katastrofu - bez pafosa i uteshenii͡a, voĭna predstaet predelʹnym ispytaniem chelovecheskogo v cheloveke. Zavershai͡ut knigu poslevoennye rasskazy, gde polem srazhenii͡a stanovitsi͡a uzhe ne front, no povsednevnostʹ - s ee opustoshennym vremenem, glukhoĭ ustalostʹi͡u i nevospolnimoĭ utratoĭ.

Andrey Platonov (1899-1951) is a writer whose prose still eludes unambiguous readings. An engineer, utopian, poet of factory outskirts and steppe roads, he created a world where faith in a bright future collides with the intractable nature of man, and high metaphysics speaks the language of folk parables and childish babble. Platonov's characters are wanderers and truth seekers, obsessed with longing for truth and love; their path is an eternal "recovery of the dead", an attempt to restore the fullness of being to the world. This collection covers stories from different years, allowing you to see the evolution of the Platonic method. The thirties open with "Doubting Makar" and include stories about love as an existential experience - mute, separating, impossible. Military prose is devoid of heroic rhetoric: here a private fate is inscribed in a general catastrophe - without pathos and consolation, war appears as the ultimate test of humanity in man. The book concludes with post-war stories, where the battlefield is no longer the front, but everyday life - with its devastated time, dull fatigue and irreparable loss.