Abstract
In the paper, new perspectives on the consideration of Andrei Platonov’s war short story “In Search of the Perishing” (“Mother”) are presented. It is shown that the text of this well-known short story is actually not uniform and not much canonical since it was created in several stages and consists of various textual stratifications that are associated with the time when the story was written (Soviet and war), and it was mediated by the writer’s multidirectional intents. The author of the article identifies the heterogeneous and extrinsic strata of the text, actually “clears up” a short story in the short story, which makes us take a fresh look at the interpretation of the “canonical” text, its hagiographic motives and Christian concepts-symbols including the iconographic name (after the miracle-working icon “In Search of the Perishing”).
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