Monday begins on Saturday. Illustrated edition with commentary
14.99 €
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Monday begins on Saturday. Illustrated edition with commentary
14.99 €
11.99 €
This book will help you take a fresh look at the story of Arkady and Boris Strugatsky "Monday Begins on Saturday". The authors themselves have repeatedly said that they wrote only a kapustnik, a collection of hilarious chuckles. However, before us is not just an original work that managed to combine the realities of the Soviet research institute and fairy tale folklore, not just a work in the genre of fantasy at a time when Soviet literature did not even exist in such a term, it is a picture of an entire era, labeled by a single word "sixties", portraits of people of that time - naive and strange "sixties". Dozens, hundreds of trifles - hobbies, clothes, fashion, manner of communication, realities of the Soviet Research Institute with its special culture, work and relationships at work and outside of it, as if in passing, are soldered into the text. Here are the menu of the canteen, the assortment of store shelves, the local committee, the wall newspaper, modest salaries and ridiculous expenses for departments and topics no one needs, questionnaires to get a job, a world in which, despite all the talents and even genius of scientists, administrative laws by virtue of their specific intransigence are more effective than natural and magical laws.
Well, besides the characteristic attributes of the time, the text "stitches up" the dreams of these very "sixties": a new cheap tape recorder twice as cheap as the real one), fashionable clothes, "rich" calculating machine "Aldan", which in principle was not and is not in nature, instead of the existing military complex "Aldan". And books, books, books - true treasures of that time. The echoes of discoveries made in the XX century, recently released movies, the excitement of the time of the first flights into space create a special background for this bright book.
Well, besides the characteristic attributes of the time, the text "stitches up" the dreams of these very "sixties": a new cheap tape recorder twice as cheap as the real one), fashionable clothes, "rich" calculating machine "Aldan", which in principle was not and is not in nature, instead of the existing military complex "Aldan". And books, books, books - true treasures of that time. The echoes of discoveries made in the XX century, recently released movies, the excitement of the time of the first flights into space create a special background for this bright book.
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