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Abstract: The article reviews the interpretation of Andrei Platonov's works in the essays and critical works of Russian writers in the second half of the XXth century. The article reveals the difference in the perception of Platonov's ideas connected with the publications in 1960s and in 1980-1990s, as well as with the changes in the aesthetics of the Soviet and post-Soviet generations of writers. The difference of the interpretations of Platonov's universe is established in its connection with different literary tendencies in the Russian literature of the second half of the XXth century (ontological realism, existential realism, projective realism, modernism, postmodernism). The peculiarities of the perception of Platonov's prose is explained also through the individual literary intentions of the writers.