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Title	:	Град обреченный
Author	:	Arkady Strugatsky
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	Anniversary Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 384 pages
Published	:	1989 by Художественная литература
Categories	:	Science Fiction. Fiction. Cultural. Russia. Dystopia

Град обреченный

Arkady Strugatsky

Paperback | Pages: 384 pages

Rating: 4.26 | 3280 Users | 193 Reviews

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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 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 best friends for sixteen years after its completion in 1972. It was only published in Russia in the late 1980s, the last of their works to see publication. It was translated into a host of major European languages, and now appears in English in a major new translation by acclaimed translator Andrew Bromfield.

The Doomed City is set in an experimental city bordered by an abyss on one side and an impossibly high wall on the other. Its sole inhabitants are people who were plucked from Earth's history and left to govern themselves under conditions established 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 he's now a garbage collector. And as increasingly nightmarish scenarios begin to affect the city, he rises through the political hierarchy, with devastating effect.

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Original Title:	Град обреченный
ISBN:	5280012904
Edition Language:	Russian
Characters:	Андрей Воронин, Дональд Купер, Иосиф Кацман

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I love the Strugatsky brothers, but this one was a bit of a slog. Deemed their most philosophical novel, The Doomed City is indeed a weighty book of big ideas. Set in a fictional "Truman Show" type city, the story follows an assortment of characters from around the world in a mysterious large-scale sociological experiment. Think long-winded existential debates about the nature of humankind, etc. The novel was risky for the Stugatskys given the political situation in the USSR at the time. The

I think I can say it is one of the best Strugatsky brothers books.

** I'll try to write this review without any spoilers **THE DOOMED CITY marks the first book in a very long time that I've struggled to finish. I'll stop short of condemning it as terrible but I will say that it was a very difficult read, both in terms of motivation and to follow.In fairness this can and should be at least partially attributed to the unavoidable disconnect inherent with any translated foreign work published generations prior, though certainly not in whole.Strugatsky provided

My rating: ★★★★

Written and then shelved due to the great subversive potential danger it implied during the Soviet era-this novel took decades to be published and then further time to be translated into English. An artificial city is the setting of an international group of volunteers who labor away for a never defined 'experiment' and as the protagonist gets promoted in society he is exposed to more and more bizarre events. Honestly, it reads as well today during the breakdown of neoliberalism as it did when

Andrei Voronin believes in the Experiment at first. Do your best and support the Experiment. He meets the Mentors. He goes inside the Red Building and finds the party going full blast. He leaves and talks to his friend Izya Katzman, the archivist. Both of them work their way up into the political rulers class of the City, but Andrei was an astrophysicist and always wanted to know why the sun was turned on full blast in the morning and shut off every night. He doesn't know what is beyond the high