{"title":"It's Easy to Be One of the Intelligentsia","authors":"Dmitrii Zanerv","doi":"10.1080/10611975.2016.1264042","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"Dmitrii Zanerv points out the unusual and continuing popularity of Arkady and Boris Strugatsky, who are still read all over the world. After outlining their biographies, Zanerv identifies their three great works and discusses the reason for the decline in quality or importance of their later writings. He concludes that they are not as great as they seemed to Soviet readers who had not read widely in science fiction from other cultures, though to this date they are still the best diagnosticians of the Soviet condition.","PeriodicalId":55621,"journal":{"name":"RUSSIAN STUDIES IN LITERATURE","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"2016-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/10611975.2016.1264042","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"RUSSIAN STUDIES IN LITERATURE","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1080/10611975.2016.1264042","RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"Q4","JCRName":"Arts and Humanities","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract
Dmitrii Zanerv points out the unusual and continuing popularity of Arkady and Boris Strugatsky, who are still read all over the world. After outlining their biographies, Zanerv identifies their three great works and discusses the reason for the decline in quality or importance of their later writings. He concludes that they are not as great as they seemed to Soviet readers who had not read widely in science fiction from other cultures, though to this date they are still the best diagnosticians of the Soviet condition.
期刊介绍:
Russian Studies in Literature publishes high-quality, annotated translations of Russian literary criticism and scholarship on contemporary works and popular cultural topics as well as the classics. Selections are drawn from the leading literary periodicals including Literaturnaia gazeta (Literary Gazette), Novoe literaturnoe obozrenie (New Literary Review), Oktiabr (October), Voprosy literatury (Problems of Literature), and Znamia (Banner). An editorial introduction to every issue provides context and insight that will be helpful for English-language readers.