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Celestial Hellscapes : Cosmology as the Key to the Strugatskiis' Science Fictions / / Kevin Reese



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Autore: Reese Kevin Visualizza persona
Titolo: Celestial Hellscapes : Cosmology as the Key to the Strugatskiis' Science Fictions / / Kevin Reese Visualizza cluster
Pubblicazione: Boston, MA : , : Academic Studies Press, , [2019]
©2019
Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (278 pages)
Disciplina: 891.7344
Soggetto topico: Science fiction, Russian - Soviet Union - History and criticism
Cosmology in literature
Astronomy in literature
Soggetto non controllato: 20th 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
Nota di contenuto: 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 -- Index
Sommario/riassunto: Neither 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.
Titolo autorizzato: Celestial Hellscapes  Visualizza cluster
ISBN: 1-61811-980-X
Formato: Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
Record Nr.: 9910793651203321
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Serie: Real twentieth century.