The book continues the series of editions of the Pushkin House on the work of the outstanding writer of the XX century. Andrei Platonov. The basis of the fourth issue is the materials of the international seminar "Platonov in the context of world culture," representing the modern view of leading domestic and foreign researchers of Russian literature on the phenomenon of the writer's artistic world. The articles combine a theoretical approach with a traditional textual analysis for this series. New materials of a memoir nature are also presented.