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Lyudmila Yu. Surovova
Lyudmila Yu. Surovova, PhD in Philology, Senior Researcher, А.M. Gorky Institute of World Literature of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Povarskaya St., 25A, bld. 1, 121069 Moscow, Russia.
ORCID ID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6163-1530
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Abstract: The article examines the reception of Platonov’s stories of the second half of the 1930s through marginalia in the manuscripts of the short stories “The Necessary Homeland,” “Immortality,” “The July Thunderstorm,” and “In a Beautiful and Furious World.” Editors of various scales — from A.M. Gorky to ordinary employees of publishing houses and journals — left their comments in the margins of Platonov’s manuscripts. Their notes sometimes turned into a hidden or explicit dialog with the author and even a friendly collaboration.