Epiphane gateways

Andrei Platonov (1899-1951) survived his first creative take-off in the mid-1920s, when the "Epiphane gateways", "city of Grada" and a secret man were created. “This is a brief stage of the writer"s relative well -being - the period when he is already published, but he has not yet been noticed by criticism” (Vladimir Kozlov) More than such happiness to Platonov will never fall out. Its reviewers - from Proletkultists to Stalin - having read in Platonov’s prose, fell into hysteria and gross abuse. The Stalinist copy of the journal Krasnaya Nov “with a story "for the future was a picture of the leader’s pencil:" fool "," vulgar "," Balaganer "," The story of an agent of our enemies, written to debunk collective farm movement ". Platonov did not consider himself a satirist, but the city of Gradov was seen by them with his eyes only as Saltykov-Shchedrin, and the collective farm red new he described by him causes a ramp and protest from the Platonov reader. This is not the look of a propagandist, armed with the method of socialist realism, but a mercilessly honest eyewitness, who pronounces the sentence of inhuman utopia. But the "foundation" and "Chevengur" have not yet been written