Emotional landscapes of A. Platonov’s prose

Emotional landscapes of A. Platonov’s prose
Авторы (текстом)
E. N. Proskurina
Institute of Philology, Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences
Keywords
works of A. Platonov, ecstasy in literature, entropy, plot, motif, discourse
Abstract

The article attempts to describe the emotional palette of the artistic
world by Platonov, to reveal the dynamics of the characters’ inward state. As demonstrated by the analysis, Platonov’s characters never remain in a calm
state of consciousness. While the ecstatic drive of re-creation of the world was
the leading emotion accompanying the characters’ actions in the early period
of Platonov’s work, in the second half of 1920s – 1930s the groundlessness
of a utopian idea is more and more actively declared. In the characters’ state
of mind this change reverberates by the replacement of enthusiastic ecstasies
with melancholy, and in the world’s state by the entropic strategy, the tendency
to excarnation. The article also reveals the influence of a psychological factor on
Platonov’s work where the leading role was played by the author’s “unendurable”,
a good deal unexercised love to his wife Maria Kashintseva.

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Bibliographic reference
E. N. Proskurina Emotional landscapes of A. Platonov’s prose // Критика и семиотика. 2015. № 2. Pp. 329–339.