Arkady Strugatsky
Paperback | Pages: 384 pages Rating: 4.26 | 3280 Users | 193 Reviews
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| Title | : | Град обреченный |
| Author | : | Arkady Strugatsky |
| Book Format | : | Paperback |
| Book Edition | : | Deluxe Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 384 pages |
| Published | : | 1989 by Художественная литература |
| Categories | : | Science Fiction. Fiction. Cultural. Russia. Dystopia |
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Arkady and Boris Strugatsky are widely considered the greatest of Russian science fiction masters, and their most famous work, Roadside Picnic, has enjoyed great popularity worldwide. Yet the novel that was their own favorite, and that readers worldwide have acclaimed as their magnum opus, has never before been published in English. The Doomed City was so politically risky that the Strugatsky brothers kept its existence a complete secret even from their best friends for sixteen years after its completion in 1972. It was only published in Russia in the late 1980s, the last of their works to see publication. It was translated into a host of major European languages, and now appears in English in a major new translation by acclaimed translator Andrew Bromfield.The Doomed City is set in an experimental city bordered by an abyss on one side and an impossibly high wall on the other. Its sole inhabitants are people who were plucked from Earth's history and left to govern themselves under conditions established by Mentors whose purpose seems inscrutable. Andrei Voronin, a young astronomer plucked from Leningrad in the 1950s, is a die-hard believer in the Experiment, even though he's now a garbage collector. And as increasingly nightmarish scenarios begin to affect the city, he rises through the political hierarchy, with devastating effect.
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| Original Title: | Град обреченный |
| ISBN: | 5280012904 |
| Edition Language: | Russian |
| Characters: | Андрей Воронин, Дональд Купер, Иосиф Кацман |
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Ratings: 4.26 From 3280 Users | 193 ReviewsCritique Of Books Град обреченный
This book is important from a historical and political stand point. The foreword and afterword certainly help highlight this fact. That said, it is not necessarily a pleasant book to read. The protagonist is not a good person. At first, when you're still trying to get a handle on the world the book takes place in and its inhabitants it's harder to figure out what kind of person the protagonist, Andrei, is. It's clear he's a naive idealist, but his ideals rapidly change.The novel has distinctHere is a fantastic, deep, and nuanced review of this work at the LA Review of books by a professor of Russian and Comparative literature. It delves into the background of the authors and the context they were writing in. I cannot hold a candle to it and highly recommend giving it a read.With that being said I do have some thoughts on the experience of reading the book. This was my first foray into Soviet science fiction. It certainly had a different feel from its Western cousin. It was more
"The City of the Doomed" or "The Doomed City" (who knows?) is a very philosophical read and probably one of the most mystically, spiritually and politically charged of the Strugatski brothers' works. I am deeply convinced that it can be very difficult to understand for many Westerners (speaking of Europe) which might explain the absence of a good translation in English. I read it in Russian and in Bulgarian translation. I have to say that in translation it looses a lot of its charm and a great
Without a doubt one of the best science fiction novels I've ever read.
Not their best science-fiction novel (How can one top Roadside Picnic?) but a masterpiece of taking down the absurdity of the Soviet system and showing it for how ridiculous it was. No wonder they had to hide the manuscript for 16 years after it was finished. This book covers the whole kit-and -kaboodle for Stalinist governance, from the idea of changing nature of the human race from greed to cooperation, racing from insane action to insane action for the sake of 'progress,' the forced
This is one of my favorite novels, of which I once wrote an amateur English translation. A city outside of time and space that obeys bizarre and changing laws of nature is populated by people taken from different countries and different times from the 20th century. The main character is a graduate student of astronomy taken from Leningrad in 1951. Originally a committed Communist, after encountering other characters, from a German Nazi to a Japanese liberal, he gradually loses his ideological
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