Andrei Platonov’s writing method: selected key characteristics and linguostylistic means

Andrei Platonov’s writing method in its ideological and theoretical basis is considered by us as the ontological relationship of his personality and creative perspective with spiritual values, attitudes and philosophical views which he professes. This writing method is realized in Platonov’s prose through the artistic interaction of author’s philosophical concepts and linguistic means which form his idiostyle. The main and broader goal of our research is a systematized and classifying description of the key language models and techniques most typical of Platonov’s writing method. The scientific results of our comprehensive analysis of Platonov’s idiostyle testify to our assertion that most of the elements and features of Platonov’s “deformed” and “coded” language are artistically modeled and are an example of the author’s successful stylization. Due to the peculiarities of the author’s language and style, Platonov’s literary text is distinguished by rich semantic ambivalence and implicativity. The volume of our work does not allow us to present a more detailed presentation of the provisions of Andrei Platonov’s creative method and an allencompassing analysis of the most important linguostylistic means which make up it. In this we, we set our specific task within the framework of a brief analytical review of the individual characteristics of Platonov’s writing method and a selective linguostylistic analysis of the key and most effective means and techniques of linguistic expressiveness which form this unique author’s method, to clearly demonstrate some of its fundamental principles and approaches.

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