A. PLATONOV’S SHORT STORIES ABOUT MAKAR GANUSHKIN (SOURCES OF THE CREATIVE CONCEPTION)

The article is devoted to the examination of A.Platonov’s stories about Makar Ganushkin, in particular, examination of some features of creative strategy of the writer who recreates «external material» in the text: newspaper and references, historical and biographic facts. Platonov›s text connects fairy tales and realities, propaganda and the art. We introduce the documents earlier not known and not published which have essential value for studying of creativity of A. Platonov in the 1920th - the 1930th years (during his work on short stories «The Dubious Makar», «The Kept Separate Makar»).

Platonov’s prose, sources of the text, creative strategies