Testing of the truth in Andrei Platonov's tale "The foundation pit"

Analyzing the manuscript of Andrei Platonov's tale The Foundation Pit and his early journalism the author traces the evolution of Platonov's views on the problem of the search for truth. Analysis of the dynamic transcription of the The Foundation Pit manuscript enabled to show that by the end of the 1920s Platonov had abandoned rationalistic interpretations of the concept of «truth», including its «Bogdanov's edition». Platonov increasingly questioned the capabilities of socialist science, based on materialism, to find out the truth about the world, and changed his views on work as the sole 529 method of learning the truth. He departed from the materialistic concept of learning and shifted towards the religious and philosophical tradition: in the finale all the more urgent becomes the formula of P. Florensky «truth-estina (to be in existence)» and outlines a shift in the concept of «truth» from the category of cognitive-materialistic («invent» / «to do») truth in ontological and moral.