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The action of the famous historical adventure novel by Ivan Antonovich Efremov (1908–1972) “Thais of Athens” takes place in the era of Alexander the Great and the founder of the new ruling dynasty of Egypt, Ptolemy I. In this last novel of the writer, many historical figures of that time are described, transferred from time immemorial to the pages books. The main character is a historical figure, hetaera Thais. The text is printed without censorship abbreviations. The publication is decorated with illustrations made by artists Igor Shalito and Galina Boyko.
Ivan Antonovich Efremov worked on his famous historical adventure novel “Thais of Athens” for several years. He processed mountains of historical material - this was reflected in his careful and methodical scientific approach to processing information. After all, Ivan Antonovich existed, as it were, in two persons. He was known to some as a major Soviet paleontologist, organizer of science, laureate of the Stalin Prize, head of a laboratory and participant in more than three dozen scientific expeditions. The skeletons of dinosaurs he found in the Gobi Desert were included in the gold fund of the Moscow Paleontological Museum. Outside scientific circles, Ivan Antonovich became known as a major science fiction writer of the Thaw period. Even during the writer’s lifetime, people started talking about him as a classic of literature, a “great cosmic dreamer” who stood on a par with such foreign luminaries of science fiction as Ray Bradbury, Arthur Clarke and Isaac Asimov. The territory of science fiction allowed Efremov to touch upon topics that were almost not covered in Soviet literature. He wrote about the problem of overpopulation of the planet, about the limitations of its resources, about the coming globalization, about appealing to the subconscious... In his novel “Thais of Athens,” he boldly raised the topic of free love and talentedly colored many scenes with eroticism. In this essay, Efremov’s thought rushes not into space, not to distant stellar civilizations, but into the depths of centuries, which separate us from the past as reliably as the cosmic vacuum separates us from distant planets. In “Thais of Athens,” Efremov managed to overcome this barrier, and thanks to the author’s talent in this novel, we see the ancient world not frozen in the marble of sculptures, but alive, motley, trembling and invariably exciting. The book is decorated with illustrations made by two artists: spouses Igor Naumovich Shalito and Galina Nikolaevna Boyko. In the sixties of the last century, Shalito’s drawings, which appeared on the pages of the magazine “Technology for Youth,” immediately attracted the attention of readers. They looked avant-garde and did not at all resemble illustrations made in the style of socialist realism. The covers of the books that Igor Naumovich designed with his drawings for the “Eureka” series, published by the Molodaya Gvardiya publishing house, also looked striking and unusual. In 1956, Shalito graduated from the Moscow Architectural Institute, and the skills acquired within its walls allowed him to boldly intersect elements of images in his drawing compositions. These are the drawings you see on the pages of this book. Together with his wife, Igor Naumovich completed illustrations for all of Efremov’s iconic works - “The Andromeda Nebula”, “The Hour of the Bull”, “The Razor’s Edge” and “Thais of Athens”.
See also:
- All books of the publisher SZKEO
- All books by the author
- All books in the series World Literature Library
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| ISBNs | 978-5-9603-0998-1 |
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| The weight | 0,7 kg |
| Size | 170 × 240 mm |
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