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
I have a trend of my own.
If they don't think, people act senselessly.
Everything comes to an end, only objects are left to pine in the dark.
Do you know how much thinking and feeling I’ve done? It’s terrible. And nothing’s come of it.
Without truth I feel ashamed to be alive.
When you've nothing to live for, you get to thinking inside your head.
My body gets weak without truth.
I want my word to be up to the scale of the feat of arms performed by the Russian soldier.
Happiness will come from materialism, not from meaning.
From our ugliness will grow the soul of the world.
Does the world have nothing inside but sorrow?
At the time of the Revolution, dogs howled day and night all over Russia.
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?