In article the question of literary reception of the novel of Andrey Platonov «Happy Moscow» for the first time published after the author`s death in 1991 and translated into Swedish in 2008 is considered. The purpose of article is the analysis of features of perception the Swedish critics, researchers, readers of the contents of the novel, the image system. During writing of article were used comparative-historical and receptive methods that allowed to deepen and expand the horizons of perception of the novel. The main content of the work makes the analysis of the literary reviews published in the Swedish daily editions «Svenska Dagbladet», «Aftonbladet», «Dagens Nyheter» giving literary «portrait» to the author of work and his text. At transfer of «Happy Moscow» to other sphere of an existing the particular interest causes an image of the main character of Moscow Chestnova as kontamination utopian and anti-utopian began, erotic, physiological and pensive, old and new. Her image we will compare with the Valkyrie in the Scandinavian mythology and image of Caspar Hauzer, the hero of the novel J. Wasserman. In modern literary criticism similar figurative parallels are a little studied and demand further consideration.
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