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...dizziest man in town is Platonov, a napless Don Juan whose bumbling charm creates a pentagonal affair that stirs up billows of social mud. While trying half-heartedly to stick by his angelic wife ("I don't want happiness, I want you"), Platonov intermittently toys with a flighty young female scientist, fights off the amorous intentions of a beautiful widow, and rekindles an old college flame. Meanwhile the widow collects an entourage consisting of a lecherous old landowner, his Paris-educated fop of a son, a weasling Jewish merchant, and a brash horse thief named Ossip. Platonov's brother...
Bread Crumb and Gunpowder Crumb were hero and villain of a new fairy tale written by Soviet Author Andrei Platonov for Pionerskaya Pravda, which aims to show the Socialist way to children under 14. Author Platonov put his two Crumbs in a hunter's beard, and there got them into arguments. Gunpowder Crumb threatened to blow up not only Bread Crumb, but self, beard and hunter. At the moment of crisis, a sparrow snatched Gunpowder from the hunter's brush and was heroically destroyed when Gunpowder exploded. Bread Crumb, meanwhile, came to his appointed happy end. The hunter...
...current Soviet literary achievement. Contrary to the Editor's assertion, this material cannot be judged independently of the economic and political regime which did so much to create it and the Advocate's editors, in choosing typical rather than outstanding material, have added to the political significance. Andrel Platonov's "Armour Plate," the story of a marine engineer turned guerilla after his contact with Fascist barbarity, or Vera Inber's "Fragments from a Poem on Besieged Leningrad" are frankly wartime propaganda. But like the other pieces in the issue they are not doctrinaire, but literary blocks in the structure...
...Platonov, but finds he likes him. too well to do it. Finally, when Platonov's talented irresolution has landed everybody in a pretty pickle, and he is willing to do anything possible to make amends, Anna Petrovna's good sense seems about to straighten out the tangle; but Sofya, still madly in love with the worthless fellow, rushes in and shoots him. In spite of this violent finale, the play may be considered a comedy...
...text has been left as Chekhov abandoned it: many speeches, printed in brackets, would do well to come out, and no real Chekhovisms would be lost. From time to time his well-known' accents are heard: "When I philosophize I lie terribly." Says Platonov angrily to Vengerovitch: "There's no out-arguing a half-educated Jew." Meekly replies Vengerovitch: "No, there isn't. . . ." Says Anna Petrovna, trying to overcome Platonov's scruples: "Why, it's very simple: a woman has come to you . . . she loves you, and you love her. . . . The weather is lovely . . . what...