Andrey Platonov: Life in death
In the recently published by N. Kornienko and E. Shubina volume, Andrei Platonov, there are terrifying lines of the twenty -seventh year: “The longing is completely unbearable, really dying. Everything somehow went out and overshadowed. <...> everywhere molestation and debauchery. Paul, literature (spiritual decomposition), society, the whole story, the darkness of the future, internal anxiety - everything, everything, everywhere, the whole earth languishes, trembles and suffers.