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
We can't feel anything - all that's left inside us is dust.
What if we all suddenly get carried away thinking - who will be left to act?
At the time of the Revolution, dogs howled day and night all over Russia.
Does the world have nothing inside but sorrow?
From our ugliness will grow the soul of the world.
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.
When you've nothing to live for, you get to thinking inside your head.
Without truth I feel ashamed to be alive.
Do you know how much thinking and feeling I’ve done? It’s terrible. And nothing’s come of it.
Everything comes to an end, only objects are left to pine in the dark.
If they don't think, people act senselessly.
I lived and languished.