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The magnum opus of Russia’s greatest science fiction novelists translated into English for the first time
Arkady and Boris Strugatsky are widely considered the greatest of Russian science fiction masters, and their most famous work, Roadside Picnic, has enjoyed great popularity worldwide. Yet the novel they worked hardest on, that was their own favorite, and that readers worldwide have acclaimed as their magnum opus, has never before been published in English. The Doomed City was so politically risky that the Strugatsky brothers kept its existence a complete secret even from their closest friends for sixteen years after its completion in 1972. It was only published in Russia during perestroika in the late 1980s, the last of their works to see publication. It was translated into a host of European languages, and now appears in English in a major new effort by acclaimed translator Andrew Bromfield.
The Doomed City is set in an experimental city whose sun gets switched on in the morning and switched off at night, bordered by an abyss on one side and an impossibly high wall on the other. Its inhabitants are people who were plucked from twentieth-century history at various times and places and left to govern themselves, advised by Mentors whose purpose seems inscrutable. Andrei Voronin, a young astronomer plucked from Leningrad in the 1950s, is a die-hard believer in the Experiment, even though his first job in the city is as a garbage collector. And as increasinbly nightmarish scenarios begin to affect the city, he rises through the political hierarchy, with devastating effect. Boris Strugatsky wrote that the task of writing The Doomed City “was genuinely delightful and fascinating work.” Readers will doubtless say the same of the experience of reading it.
- Sales Rank: #66817 in Books
- Published on: 2016-07-01
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Dimensions: 8.50" h x 1.00" w x 5.50" l, .0 pounds
- Binding: Paperback
- 416 pages
Review
"This publication of The Doomed City reveals the Strugatsky's great lost masterwork, an allegorical nightmare metropolis fit for the special atlas that gives home to Kafka's Castle, Charles Finney's The Unholy City, Rex Warner's Aerodrome, and a very select handful of others." -- Jonathan Lethem
About the Author
Arkady and Boris Strugatsky were famous and popular Russian writers of science fiction, with more than twenty-five novels and novellas to their names, including The Doomed City, The Inhabited Island, and Roadside Picnic. Their books have been widely translated and made into a number of films. Andrew Bromfield has translated into English works by Victor Pelevin, Boris Akunin, Sergei Lukyanenko, Mikhail Bulgakov, Daniil Kharms, Leo Tolstoy, and the Strugatsky brothers. Dmitry Glukhovsky is the author of Metro 2033. He lives in Moscow.
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6 of 6 people found the following review helpful.
Thoughtful and thought-provoking piece of “serious” literature - now in excellent English translation
By Y. Teperman
I first read “The Doomed City” in Russian more than twenty years ago, right when it was first published. This book is rightly considered the masterpiece of Brothers Boris and Arcady Strugatsky. And, I was gladdened to finally be able to share this book with my English-speaking friends. This translation is absolutely first class, very precise and spot-on. It follows closely the original written language, and does a fair job of capturing some uniquely idiomatic expressions that are frankly impossible to translate. The book still might pose a serious challenge to an American (or simply Western) reader, for whom some Soviet Russian social mores and traditions might be unfamiliar, and the uniquely sardonic mind-set might be utterly alien.
The book is sardonically dark, in a way that most Western readers may be un-accustomed to. While some Western-written novels like the “High-Rise” by J.G. Ballard, stories by Phillip K. Dick, and, of course, George Orwell “1984” are indeed comparably “dark” in tone, Strugatsky offer us a vision that is not so much action-packed, but uniquely bleak and oppressive, yet somehow also, understandably human, and even wise. There are fantastic elements, but they are used as a setting, not as the main focus of the book, which is always directed at the very real human condition. Overall, I think it is misleading to think of this book as a sci-fi. It is no more a sci-fi novel than J. Ballard’s “High-Rise”. What it is – is a thoughtful and thought-provoking piece of “serious” literature – perhaps the most important Russian novel written in the past fifty years. It joins a fine tradition of Russian literature of Gogol, Tolstoy, and Dostoyevsky, and, similarly, warrants attention and demands to be explored by any well-read person, especially as it is finally available in English.
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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful.
A Long Lost Strugatsky's Masterpiece in English
By Jordan
(Note: I already reviewed this book on Goodreads, but I thought it would be better to give my review on Amazon since I bought the paperback from it.)
It's a great book, really. Though I do not know if it should belong with the authors' other masterpieces, such as "Hard to Be a God" and "Roadside Picnic," I think everyone would be interested in reading it.
The book is also the longest work than any other Strugatsky's books, as Boris explained in the afterword that it took three years for him and his brother to plan it and finally wrote it for another three years. But it was not published until sixteen years later, due to the dangerous time in the 1970s.
The book contains some allusions of the Soviet Union, where the people behind the Experiments act as the communist government, the City is their playground, and its inhabitants are their guinea pigs. According to the foreword, Dmitry Gluskhovsky, the author of "Metro 2033," relates how the City is like St. Petersburg. He explains that St. Petersburg went through periods of rough time, from the Bolshevik Coup to the Nazi blockade and to the communist regime. He describes that is how the City goes through during the course of the narrative, like the revolution where the farmers started a war against their government for not explaining why the sun could not turn on for the past week.
I would recommend it for anyone who is a Strugatsky fan or a newcomer to read it. This book is very philosophical at the last chapters of the book, and it would leave you surprised at the end.
0 of 0 people found the following review helpful.
What a book
By Garrett
To start off, this is truly a great book. A masterwork of science fiction and philosophy, this book probably being the most philosphical of the Strugatskys' works. Dealing with existence and life and what purpose to live is there, it's a fantastic novel, however at times, specifically at two points in the story for me, the philosophy seems to take over completely for a couple pages where the main charcter talks/thinks to himself about the philosophy at hand, with the second part occuring later in the book and resulting in a 2-3 page block of dialouge from the main character. Some may enjoy those ramblings that occur and absolutely love that block of text, for me though the story seemed yo crawl along during that period. Regardless, I thought it was a fantastic boom and enjoyed the realized and developed characters and the well crafted story
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