Monday begins on Saturday. Strugatsky A.N., Strugatsky B.N.

This book will help you look at the story of Arkady and Boris Strugatsky in a new way "Monday begins on Saturday." The authors themselves repeated more than once that they wrote only a cabbage, a collection of cheerful hooks. However, in front of us is not just an original work, which managed to combine the realities of the Soviet Research Institute and Fabulous folklore, not only a work in the fantasy genre at a time when even such a term has no such term in Soviet literature, this is a picture of a whole era, designated in one word “sixties”, portraits of people that time - naive and strange "sixties."

dozens, hundreds of little things - hobbies, clothing, fashion, manner of communication, the realities of the Soviet Research Institute with its special culture, work and relationships at work and outside it, as it were, by passing into the text. Here are the canteen menu, and the assortment of store shelves, a place, a wall newspaper, modest salaries and ridiculous expenses for no one needed departments and topics, profiles for entering work, a world, in which, despite all the talents and even the genius of scientists, administrative laws by virtue of its specific adamance is more effective than natural and magical laws.

Well, besides the characteristic attributes of time, the dreams of these same “sixties” are “sewn up”: a new cheap tape recorder is two times cheaper than real), fashionable clothes, “rich” The Aldan count-computing machine, which, in principle, was not and is not in nature, instead of the already existing military complex "Aldan". And books, books, books are true treasures of that time. Echoes of discoveries made in the 20th century, recently released films, inspiration of the time of first flights into space create a special background for this bright book.