Andrei Platonov
Andrei Platonov
Andrei Platonovwas the pen name of Andrei Platonovich Klimentov, a Soviet Russian writer, playwright, and poet, whose works anticipate existentialism. Although Platonov was a Communist, most of his works were banned in his own lifetime for their skeptical attitude toward collectivization and other Stalinist policies, as well as for its experimental, avant-garde form. His famous works include the novels The Foundation Pitand Chevengur...
NationalityRussian
ProfessionWriter
Date of Birth1 September 1899
CountryRussian Federation
From our ugliness will grow the soul of the world.
What if we all suddenly get carried away thinking - who will be left to act?
We can't feel anything - all that's left inside us is dust.
A man who's never seen war is like a woman who's never given birth - soft in the head.
At the time of the Revolution, dogs howled day and night all over Russia.
Does the world have nothing inside but sorrow?
Happiness will come from materialism, not from meaning.
I want my word to be up to the scale of the feat of arms performed by the Russian soldier.
My body gets weak without truth.
If kids can forget their own mothers but still have a sense of comrade Lenin, then Soviet power really is here to stay!
The working class is my home country, and my future is linked with the proletariat.
When you've nothing to live for, you get to thinking inside your head.
Without truth I feel ashamed to be alive.
Busy remaking the world, man forgot to remake himself.