"The Innermost Man" is the principal image of the concept of the world and man by A. Platonov.
His hero passes a difficult way of accession to humanness primarily getting to know himself and conjoining his life with millions of lives of the creations both living now and long gone. His difficult relationships with himself and the world are realised not only through the poetry of the works by the writer but also through the complex language.The article presents the way to understanding the writer's concept through the image of the "innermost man".