Film Adaptations of Andrei Platonov's Prose: Visualizing Matter - Research Proposal Example

Feminine imagery is one of the attentions grabbing literature style featured in Platonov’s prose. Gender appears thus important feature of Andrei’s utopian vision. The state of intrauterine is characterized by the lack of breach between satisfaction and need, symbolically, no breach connecting the organism with its external reality. All paradise features, as well as the Golden Age in sagas and myths regarding the futuristic world universality (harmony) including philosophical speculation, then religious revelations, and eventually, involving socioeconomic paradise integrating political utopias.

All these phenomena portray clear signs of their source from that very urge of memories of unconsciousness regarding paradise that existed in the real sense; this is the reason as to why they powerfully exercise and affect minds of men.     Thomas Seinfride further contributes; Platonov visualizes revolution by use of mathematical symbols to represent eternity and infinity. Additionally, predictions on utopias’ variations of the other/self binary are also projected. This helps in realizing the logic embedded on the Platonov’s body.

     Platonov seeks not to include the alienation moments in psychological growth that stem from the self/other dichotomy self, and instead tends to reconfigure the hollow body of a female as a vacuum of a glorious conforming wholeness of maternity. Platonov presents a comparison of the sun to blindness implying imagery. It is, therefore, left to the audience or novel readers to visualize the black sun. He also tells of a golden and dazzling golden sun that thus causes blindness effect.

The hidden phenomenon is an allegory regarding the reluctance of people holding portions in authority. The paradox of the sun is also featured; the sun is praised due to its indispensable support for every life on earth. The sun ought to give light, whereas, in this context, it gives out darkness.      In Chevengur’s work, a novel, Platonov’s characters are portrayed helpless as he succumbs to darkness. Further, the expected giver of light is equated to the lack of light.

Platonov additionally uses the oedipal imagery. This is developed in Chevengur’s character by the name Aleksanar Dvanov. Dranov’s inability to embrace Bolshevik dogma’s dictates is explicitly coined in terms of Dvanov’s rejection of the autonomy of adulthood as well as clearly defined sexuality. Throughout the novel, Chevengur, Dvanov rejects the teleology of Faustian regarding communist immortality to favour infinite death’s comfort. The accrued aquatic imagery surrounding death’s moment as featured in Chevengur permits readers see (visualize) the death of Dvanov playing in the Pelagian instinct.

The approach in which Platovon describes Dvanov’s suicide tends to mislead, though; the description apparently emphasizes the paternal but not the maternal.