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Natalya V. Kornienko
Natalia V. Kornienko, DSc in Philology, Corresponding Member of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Director of Research, Head of the Department of Modern Russian Literature and Literature of the Russian Abroad, А.M. Gorky Institute of World Literature of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Povarskaya 25 a, 121069 Moscow, Russia
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Abstract: The article examines the problems of Andrey Platonov’s novel writing technique by relying on the textual and historical and literary issues of the writer’s major novels, which we currently know about. Platonov’s work on novels in the 1920s–1930s is incorporated into the political and literary context of the era when the novel became the leading prose genre in the works of prose writers in Soviet Russia and in emigration. The author analyzes the history of the creation of the principal writer’s novel, i. e. “Chevengur” (1927–1929), along with the history of unfinished (“Technical Novel,” “Happy Moscow”) and unwritten novels (under the conventional title “Stratilat” and “Journey from Leningrad to Moscow”).