“THE ETHEREAL WIND” CONCEPTION AND THE THEORY OF RELATIVITY BY A. EINSTEIN IN A. P. PLATONOVA’S WORKS: IMITATION AND INTERPRETATION
The scientific revolution of the end 19th – beginning 20th century had a great importance on the formation of Platonov’s world-view. Especially it refers to the Einshtein’s Theory of Relativity and the connected with it polemics about “the ethereal wind”. Platonov studied these conceptions in the beginning of 1920-s as a student of the physical and mathematical faculty, then he was interested in this matter like a philosopher and a man of letters. The article depicts some ways of reflection for these two theories in Platonov’s stories.
Keywords: creativity A. Platonov, poetic language, the substance of existence the theory of relativity, theory of the ether, quantum, the electron, the gravity, radio the evolution, time and the space
Issue: 7, 2011
Series of issue: Issue 7
Rubric: Comic Issues in Authors Models of Creativity
Pages: 122 — 128
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