ANDREI PLATONOV AND BORIS PIL'NIAK: THE PURSUIT OF THE HAPPY MAN

Abstract

shows us a possible alternative to the Soviet system with the ques - tioning, the search, the attempts, and the resistence that the characters show. They avoid future that is imposed by a power that destroys the past and empties the present. Platonov shows that the human sould resides in rela - tions, memory, and emotions.