Juvenile Sea. River Potudan. Ether Track

In the distant steppes of the east, there exists a small state farm "Parental Yards," where the dispatched engineer Nikolai Vermo is about to meet extremely strange people and experience truly fantastic events... The girl Lyuba and Nikita, who returned... from the Civil War to a poor village on the banks of the River Potudan, have loved each other since childhood. However, marriage turns into mutual torment for both of them... The semi-mad scientist Popov makes a great discovery: the Universe is a single gigantic living organism, in which electrons are the "microbes of consciousness." However, his enlightenment becomes a curse for him and those around him... This collection includes three famous novellas by Platonov: "Juvenile Sea," "River Potudan," and "Ether Track," which represent unique examples of early magical realism, where everyday and fantastic motifs are mixed in the most unexpected and original ways.