Platonov's sensitivitiesProfessor Meerson,

[Alexandra Smith]

Dear

Quoting Olga Meerson <meersono at GEORGETOWN.EDU>:

> Platonov's ia chuvstvuiu--without an object or a clause governed by   
> it--is analogous, first and foremost, to Platonov's own locution of   
> the same structure elsewhere, in Kotlovan, ia zdes' ne   
> sushchestvuiu, ia tol'ko dumaiu zdes'. In both cases, feeling and   
> thinking are valuable independently of their objects or objectives.   
> The model for that latter one, in Kotlovan, in turn, is a   
> tongue-in-cheek polemic with Descarthes, who claimed that the latter  
>  was the sole necessary condition and guarantee of the former.   
> Platonov is anti-Shklovskian in one particular respect: he reverses   
> the device of defamiliarization. But I have written a whole book on   
> that. Like Pilate but on a happier occasion, I may say that what I   
> have written is what I have written. That is, I still stand by my   
> conclusions in that book.
> Olga Meerson

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