Works by A. Platonov, short content. "Doubting Makar"

The story of A. Platonov - we offer his short content - "The doubted Makar" was written in 1929. In it, in fact, describes the process of the emergence of bureaucracy in a young state. And an ordinary person - the main character - becomes an impersonal employee.

Life in the countryside

Stand out among other working people Makar Ganushkin, with an empty head, but who loved crafts, and Lev Chumova - the most intelligent among fellow villagers, but empty-handed. The first often arranged in the village spectacles. Then the carousel will be invented by the people, then the samovod will try to arrange it. As a result, Chumova repeatedly criticized him for public unrest. And after Makar received iron from the ore mined in the well, Leo fined the hero for concealing the "discovery of national economic importance." So begins his story A. Platonov.

The doubting Makar leaves for Moscow

To pay the fine, Makar had to engage in fishing. He without a ticket - so it was back in 1919, when he last traveled by rail - took a train going to Moscow. True, he was more interested in how they worked during the movement of the wheel, because it was located on the couplers. But only he tried to think - the force from nothing made hands moved to the head - as the guard ordered him to get off at the station for lack of a ticket. Makar decided that he needed to go further, so as not to violate the technical properties of the car, and hid under the car. So he reached the station, from where the capital was visible, and decided to go on foot.

On the way to Moscow

In order not to get lost, the hero went along the road and witnessed incomprehensible phenomena for him. Here is their summary.

The doubting Makar was amazed at the abundance of "spoiled good", i.e. Garbage, lying next to the platform. "A man lives and gives birth to a desert around him," he thinks with displeasure. He did not see the science and technology, of which they spoke so much, and at the station where the cans of milk were unloaded. Makar tried to prove to the boss that their actions lead to waste. After all, in one direction the cans are driven full, and back - empty. He suggested building a milk pipe so as not to drive the equipment. In Moscow, sit the smartest, who are engaged in these issues - was the answer (this is its brief content). Doubting Makar was angry and went on.

Getting to know Moscow

The hero entered the capital late in the morning. People ran somewhere, and Makar thanked everyone for dressing and shod the country. "But why not work at home - ... you do not have to spend your energy," Makar said doubtfully.

The brief content of dating the big city is as follows. The hero climbed into the tram, from which he was banished by the hostess who checked the tickets. Looking at the huge houses, I sympathized with the Soviet authorities: it is difficult to maintain such a tackle intact. Seeing the militiaman pointing out the way with a rye flour with his outstretched hand with his fist, he decided that in Moscow "they feed themselves with white zhamkami." Having reached the center, he leaned against a large stone and was imbued with respect for himself and the whole state. These are the impressions of the hero from the meeting with the capital and their brief content.

Doubting Makar went to the bank of the river, where he saw the construction of the eternal house - so said one of the workers. Here he was summoned to a barrack and allowed to eat.

Compassionate melancholy

After the mess, the hero went to the construction site. He was interested in technology - the symbol of the future life. Everything seemed to go well: the piles were hammered, the concrete drained into the trays ... But Makar did not leave the feeling that something is lacking here. Finally, he realized that during construction, the concrete was packed into iron frames by hand. And where is the technique? - Once again thought of doubting Makar. An analysis of what he saw led the hero to the conclusion: you need to make a tube-gut, through which concrete will come up. Then the workers will not get tired.

In the Moscow scientific and technical office and trade union

Makar decided to tell about his conjecture. He found an office where the scribe sent him to the chief engineer. He listened and sent for the ruble for food and a return ticket. But Makar was not going home and in the next room took a paper in the union - they could give money for the gut device.

Only in the evening Makar waited for the chief. He gave him a piece of paper-an appeal to a certain Lopin-he had to help in his discovery.

Road to the proletariat

The house where Lopin needed to be found turned out to be a shelter-doss house with pillows and a roof. The hero liked what the Soviet government did. Having found out that he needed seasonal, not beggars, Makar remained waiting for the evening.

When the proletariat returned from work, he went to bed, the hero entered the doss house and told of the disorders he had discovered. And although resentful remarks were heard, the hero saw around himself a force that could not be hostile, notes Platonov. Doubting Makar shared thoughts about the milk line and the gut, which he himself came up with. But when someone mentioned the soul, the inventor discovered that his affairs were not proletarian, and he was disheartened. And in a dream I saw the most learned idol, from which I tried to find out: what needs to be done so that from its existence the benefit would be? When he climbed the mountain and touched the statue's hand, it disintegrated, and Makar woke up.

Acquaintance with Peter

In the doss house there was only a pockmarked peasant. After thinking about Comrade Lenin and the Communist Party, they decided now to act together. At first we inspected the city, and by the evening decided to eat somewhere. Peter chose a psychiatric hospital, which led to the allegedly unhealthy Makar. Here they were fed and left for examination. In the evening, Peter and Makar read Lenin's letters that "our institutions ... and laws ... shit," and socialism should be built by the masses, and not by the papers of institutions. And then it dawned on them: you need to go to RCT, where they found one Lev Freak. For a while, all three of them sat in the office and received citizens. However, their advice was so simple that anyone could think of them. Soon there was only one Chumova left in the RCI, who died among the clerical papers after the commission for the liquidation of the state was established.