Volume 13, Number 12 · January 1, 1970
Introducing Andrei Platonov
By Yevgeny Yevtushenko, Translated from the Russian by Joseph Barnes
Andrei Platonov's face, looking out from one of his last photographs, is the face of a tired Russian worker. It has not a trace of affectation, no hint of what is called 'artistic temperament,' no monumental profundity, no 'oracular brilliance' in the eyes.
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