Japanese crossword «Brun by Strugatsky»
| Size: 55x38 | Picture: | Difficulty: | Added: | 14.05.18 | Author: Vigil |
COMMENTS
Vigil opens the door, once again, to a view of Russian culture most of us would otherwise miss. Спасибо!
replyspoiler
1. BOOK: This is an illustration of a character from the book (and movie) *The Dead Mountaineer's Inn* by Russian science fiction authors Arkady and Boris Strugatsky. When an avalanche strands a number of strange characters at a mountain inn, a bizarre locked-room murder occurs. Glebsky, a police office on vacation, tries to solve the murder in a rational manner. The authors challenge the assumption of the detective genre: can this evil act be approached rationally? (Perhaps an existential questions as the Strugatsky brothers barely survived a number of horrors during WWII including Hitler's siege of Leningrad).
For a thought-provoking review, scroll down to The complete review's Review at http://www.complete-review.com/reviews/trscifi/strugatAB4.htm
For a thought-provoking review, scroll down to The complete review's Review at http://www.complete-review.com/reviews/trscifi/strugatAB4.htm
show: 1 🗨
spoiler
As for the image in the crossword: The review (see first spoiler) says:
questions of identity are fundamental to the story. This is most obvious in the case of the kid Brun, a moody youth of indeterminate sex -- "Was it a boy ? Or, damn it, a girl ?" (This confusion is played to fine comic effect, especially in Glebsky's interactions with the youth, as he tries to fix a sex to Brun.)