Monday starts on Saturday

This book will help you take a fresh look at the story by Arkady and Boris Strugatsky "Monday Begins on Saturday". The authors themselves have repeatedly said that they wrote only a skit, a collection of funny jokes. However, before us is not just an original work that managed to combine the realities of a Soviet research institute and fairy-tale folklore, not only a work in the fantasy genre at a time when such a term did not even exist in Soviet literature, this is a picture of an entire era, designated by one word "sixties", portraits of people of that time - naive and strange "sixties". Dozens, hundreds of little things - hobbies, clothes, fashion, manner of communication, the realities of a Soviet research institute with its special culture, work and relationships at work and outside of it are as if casually soldered into the text. Here is the canteen menu, and the assortment of store shelves, the local committee, the wall newspaper, modest salaries and ridiculous expenses on useless departments and topics, application forms for employment, a world in which, despite all the talents and even genius of scientists, administrative laws, due to their specific inflexibility, turn out to be more effective than natural and magical laws. Well, in addition to the characteristic attributes of the time, the dreams of these same "sixties" are "sewn" into the text: a new cheap tape recorder twice cheaper than a real one), fashionable clothes, a "rich" Aldan computing machine, which in principle did not exist and does not exist in nature, instead of the already existing military complex "Aldan". And books, books, books - true treasures of that time. Echoes of discoveries made in the 20th century, recently released films, the inspiration of the time of the first flights into space create a special background for this bright book. Commented edition with illustrations by Dmitry Nikulushkin.