Monday Starts on Saturday Strugatsky BorisPaperback
Monday Starts on Saturday Strugatsky BorisPaperback Sasha, a young computer programmer from Leningrad, is driving north to meet some friends for a nature vacation. The adventures Sasha has in the…
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Monday Starts on Saturday Strugatsky BorisPaperback
Sasha, a young computer programmer from Leningrad, is driving north to meet some friends for a nature vacation. The adventures Sasha has in the largely dysfunctional institute involve all sorts of magical beings--a wish-granting fish, a tree mermaid, a cat who can remember only the beginnings of stories, a dream-interpreting sofa, a motorcycle that can zoom into the imagined future, a lazy dog-size mosquito--along with a variety of wizards (including Merlin), vampires, and officers. He picks up a couple of hitchhikers, who persuade him to take a job at the National Institute for the Technology of Witchcraft and Thaumaturgy.
Like the works of Gogol and Kafka, it tackles the nature of institutions--here focusing on one devoted to discovering and perfecting First published in Russia in 1965, Monday Starts on Saturday has become the most popular Strugatsky novel in their homeland.