Mythic and poetical layer of the novel "Happy Moscow".

Abstract

Besides actual public and literary layer Platonov’s plot uses also a series of motives which are going back to myth, archaic-characteristic images and plot schemes. By special meanings such motives are noted not only the beginning and the end of the novel, but also different culminations, outcome, plot changes and transitions possessing a special semantic peculiarity in a text structure. Mythological plot motives which are more essential to the plot of the novel are considered in the article.