On Specific Features of A.P. Platonov's Magic Tales
The article deals with a less studied aspect of research on Platonov - the author 's magic tales. In the present work, problems of genre specifics of the author's tales are reviewed, certain principles of genre creation are reconstructed (by contrasting them with A. Tolstoy's and A. Remizov's methods), and the role and place of conventionality in Platonov's "non-fairytale" prose are analyzed. It enables the researcher to make a conclusion that the genre of a folktale is inherently organic to the writer's creative method: the fairy tales analyzed in the article correspond to the author's political and moral views, as well as to societal principles of the time. Tales by Platonov are understood as a separate art form, revealing specific aesthetic and world-view features of Platonov's creative work allegorically, in a synthesis of the fantastic and real.