TOLSTOY AND PLATONOV’S PROSE IN 1941–1945
Journal: A.M. Gorky Institute of World Literature of the Russian Academy of Sciences eBooks
Year: 2024

The article provides a comparative analysis of A. Platonov’s wartime stories (1941–1945) and Leo Tolstoy’s “Sevastopol Stories,” “War and Peace” and “Hadji Murat.” Both Platonov’s Red Army fighters and Tolstoy’s soldiers identify themselves not with an abstract “fatherland” but with their local “small motherland.” Both in Tolstoy and Platonov’s works, neither skillful strategy nor overpowering armaments become the war’s decisive factor but every single soldier’s courage. The battle often develop