this is a must-read podcast, yana batnikova, we are talking about the war stories of andrei platonov he people's life is. herman, but at the same time i also understand that platonov is an absolutely brilliant writer, he is a man such a gift could do something. completely to the fullest, he lived on he and in all areas he showed himself to the fullest, when he worked as an engineer, he was truly recognized as a useful member of society, he was useful, certainly, he was a useful member of society, he was not an armchair thinker, and this is also what fascinates platonov: such power and breadth of spirit. at the same time, he looks very childish, sometimes he has a lot of stories about children, that is, when we see through the eyes of a child what is happening, and there in the stories, a cow or an iron old woman, it is clear that he has this look, it is very pure, that is, he could look, let’s say , from a child at the world, and his most probably unique quality is platonic, that he is, well, in addition to being naturally literary yes... his fantastic style, there is this pity for pe

there is such a statement by andrei platonov in the novel happy moscow.ev. above all the world he loved scales, he loved his periodic system and that less, although everything is based on the same scales, atomic weight, nothing more, this is of course such a literary image, but nevertheless very correct, the fact is that even when working manager of the main chamber, and that’s what our institution was called under him, he himself worked directly in the weighing department, and another legend, allegedly on the mendeleev train i heard a conversation about the sale of an estate near klin. in fact, everything was prosaic, the scientist wanted to buy an estate in these places, he did not have enough money, this is mendeleevo with all its merits, and he acquired boblov together with professor nikolai ilyen. in st. petersburg, mendeleev lived in government apartments, and his first home was the boblov estate. here he gathered his entire family, sent relatives from siberia, since dmitry ivanovich mendeleev was interested. soil science, fertilizers, then he appli

this podcast is a must read, i'm aglan batnikova, today we're discussing andrey platonov, the great russianhello, german, please tell me what is special about platonov and... to read, if you haven’t read platonov, then you basically don’t understand anything about russian literature, yes, well, i agree, but you know , when you chose this topic, i was a little surprised, because you are a hindu, a postmodernist, it seems to me that you work very cool with myths and some kind of double meanings, when i found out that you wanted to talk about platonov, i was surprised because moreover, you chose the corpus of military texts. platonov's prose, why? platonov has always been one of my favorite writers. i have this somewhat strange set. favorite writers, because on the one hand i have bunin, on the other hand platonov, who worked at approximately the same time, but completely, let’s say, in divergent directions, yes, but you need to understand both of them, so that again , as i say, know. before the military, that’s when you read exactly these military topics, although they would seem washed out,