Andrei Platonov, one of the best Russian writers and playwrights, did not receive wide fame, but many of his works are now unusually relevant and readable. For example, his fairy-tale come true "Unknown Flower" is included in the school literary program.
Andrei Platonovich Platonov was born at the end of the 19th century in Voronezh. According to him, his life was deprived of a period of youth, and from childhood he immediately stepped into the adult world. Nevertheless, he considered his fate as happy as it was tragic.
The writer's childhood passed in a large poor family, and already from the age of 13 he had to work with his father so that the family could avoid hunger. By the age of 20, Andrei Platonov had mastered several professions - he worked as a janitor, a messenger, a railway trackman and land reclamator. But his real vocation is journalism and journalism.
Platonov’s works are distinguished by depth, realism, bordering on fabulousness, but from this they do not lose their meaning. The mass reader is not aware of many of his works because he was "lucky" to create in Soviet times, when censorship tried to find anti-Soviet seditious thoughts behind every word, and Platonov’s works were precisely those ornate and ambiguous that were forbidden for publication. In 1946, the writer was struck off the list of writers for the story of the broken fate of a soldier.
Fairy tale come true "Unknown Flower" - about the plot
The plot of this work of Platonov unfolds around a small defenseless seed of a plant that tries to survive and shoot in an abandoned wasteland, on lifeless clay soil. And, despite the fact that he has no chance, he still struggles, looking for ways to salvation where they should not be.
And the reward for his labors and desire for life is a little girl who is also lonely and uncomfortable in this world. With its help, the plant gains the opportunity not only to survive, but also to turn into a flower, to give life to its seed children.
And this fairy tale, the past of Platonov, is filled with hidden meaning, behind a simple, at first glance, plot is hidden the mystery of survival, which lies in the nature of each person, but not everyone manages to reveal and cultivate these qualities in themselves.
