Celestial Hellscapes (eBook)

Cosmology as the Key to the Strugatskiis' Science Fictions

Kevin Reese (Autor)

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2019
278 Seiten
Academic Studies Press (Verlag)
978-1-61811-980-3 (ISBN)

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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.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 18.6.2019
• Reihe/Serie: Real Twentieth Century
• Reihe/Serie: The Real Twentieth Century
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Essays / Feuilleton
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft
• Themenwelt: Naturwissenschaften ► Physik / Astronomie ► Astronomie / Astrophysik
• Schlagworte: 20th century literature • A Billion Years Until the End of the World • Aleksandr Pushkin • Andrei Tarkovsky • Arkady and Boris Strugatsky • Arkady Strugatskii • Arkady Strugatsky • Astronomy • Boris Strugatskii • Boris Strugatsky • Comparative Literature • Cosmology • Literary Studies • Postmodernism • postmodern literature • Post-WWII Soviet literature • Roadside Picnic • russian authors • Russian Literature • Russian science fiction • Science Fiction • Soviet authors • Soviet Literature • Soviet Science Fiction • Soviet Union literature • Strugatskii • Strugatskii brothers • Strugatsky • Strugatsky brothers • 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 • Twentieth century literature • Twentieth-Century Literature
• ISBN-10: 1-61811-980-X / 161811980X
• ISBN-13: 978-1-61811-980-3 / 9781618119803