04744nam 22009615 450 991079365120332120231122163328.01-61811-980-X10.1515/9781618119803(CKB)4100000008416117(MiAaPQ)EBC5786844(DE-B1597)541091(OCoLC)1083691309(DE-B1597)9781618119803(EXLCZ)99410000000841611720200229h20192019 fg engurcnu||||||||txtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierCelestial Hellscapes Cosmology as the Key to the Strugatskiis' Science Fictions /Kevin ReeseBoston, MA :Academic Studies Press,[2019]©20191 online resource (278 pages)Real Twentieth Century1-61811-979-6 Frontmatter --Contents --Acknowledgements --A Note on the Names of Our "Author" --The Strugatskiis' Pushkinian Cosmology --Introduction --Chapter 1. A Biography through Astronomy --Chapter 2. Minor Planets: The Strugatskiis' Earlier Experiments in Cosmology --Chapter 3. The Hell of the Ignorant: The Second Martian Invasion --Chapter 4. Poincaré's Starless Hell: The Inhabited Island --Chapter 5. Exceptions to the Laws of Thermodynamics: Roadside Picnic --Chapter 6. "Long live darkness!": A Billion Years until the End of the World --Chapter 7. The Island Universe and the Copper Doorknob: The Doomed City --Chapter 8. Chronic Bewilderment and Astronomical "Fact": Those Burdened by Evil --Coda. "Day and night my Man in Black gives me no peace...": The Yids of the City of Peter --Afterword --Bibliography --Appendix: The Altitude of Vega --IndexNeither Arkadii nor Boris Strugatskii had originally intended to make a living in writing. Arkadii dreamed of becoming an astronomer, but his wartime experience and training led him to work as a translator and editor of Japanese literature. Boris intended to become a physicist, trained as an astronomer, and ended up as a computer specialist at Pulkovo Observatory. This common thread of astronomy turns out to be fantastically important for understanding their works, as their most important ones are experiments in cosmology, and their shared expertise is instrumental in their construction of literary hellscapes. This book explores how the Strugatskiis' cosmological explorations are among the most fundamental elements of their art. It examines also how these explorations connect to their predecessors in the Russian literary tradition-particularly to the poetry of Pushkin.Real twentieth century.Science fiction, RussianSoviet UnionHistory and criticismCosmology in literatureAstronomy in literature20th century literature.A Billion Years Until the End of the World.Aleksandr Pushkin.Andrei Tarkovsky.Arkady Strugatskii.Arkady Strugatsky.Arkady and Boris Strugatsky.Astronomy.Boris Strugatskii.Boris Strugatsky.Cosmology.Literary studies.Post-WWII Soviet literature.Roadside Picnic.Russian authors.Russian literature.Russian science fiction.Science fiction.Soviet Union literature.Soviet authors.Soviet literature.Soviet science fiction.Strugatskii brothers.Strugatskii.Strugatsky brothers.Strugatsky.Svoiet art.The Doomed City.The Inhabited Island.The Second Martian Invasion.The Stalker.The Yids of the City of Peter.The Zone.Those Burdened by Evil.comparative literature.postmodern literature.postmodernism.twentieth century literature.twentieth-century literature.Science fiction, RussianHistory and criticism.Cosmology in literature.Astronomy in literature.891.7344Reese Kevinauthttp://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut1575808DE-B1597DE-B1597BOOK9910793651203321Celestial Hellscapes3853098UNINA