Platonov: I wrote this work for one man

[Steve Marder]

Robert Chandler wrote:

> Dear all,
> 
> There is a quote I need urgently and cannot track down.
> 
> Somewhere Platonov says something like ‘I wrote this work, in effect, for
> one man.’  He is talking, I think, of VPROK, though it might be KOTLOVAN.
> 
> Can anyone help me? I don’t think I have dreamed this up!

После атаки на “Впрок” Платонов говорил: “Я писал эту повесть для одного
человека (для тов. Сталина), а этот человек повесть читал и по существу мне
ответил. Все остальное меня не интересует” (“Огонек”. 1990. №19. С. 19-20).
(http://www.hrono.info/biograf/platonov.html)

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