Livingstone "time in chevengur"

In Chevengur time has stopped. It is the end of time as the Marxist teleological end to all of humanity has reached its climax, so the inhabitants think, in Chevengur.803

She looks into Platonov's own beliefs on what time means in the philosophical sense.

In the novel most of the questions are either poorly answered by people not capable of answering well or just not answered. Zakhar is trying to figure out the answer to a number of different problems and one of these is time. 807-8

Kopyenkin too 809

Druzhbya bednyaki group is Platonov's satirization of the excesses of communists. They want the meetings to be everyday or twice a day so the important events don't float away without being given proper attention.

The chevengurians are the absolute satire where they want to do nothing in the quest for communism except stop time in the moment when they have produced commraderie. 810

They are satirized in the fact that they take the stopping of time before the eternal communism and literally stay up all night waiting for the dawn of the new day when communism will be reached. 815

Chepurnyi has a sadness for the life that he lived during time before the end of time. He is sad for all the memories that were before. 815