Arkady Strugatsky — the best moments of life
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28 Aug born Arkady Natanovich Strugatsky. For more than a dozen years of creativity in collaboration with his brother, he won the hearts of many readers. Yes, to such an extent that on September 11, 1977 in the name Strugatsky was named a minor planet №3054, opened at the Crimean astrophysical Observatory. Their best works were filmed, and some of them formed the basis of the games. Screenwriter, writer, classics of modern scientific and social fiction today would have turned 89 years old.
The most vivid moments and quotes from the writer's works in our collection.
August 28, 1925 in the family of an art historian and teacher of Russian language and literature in Batumi was born Arkady Strugatsky. A little later he was born and his brother Boris, with whom later he will win the hearts of readers around the world.
A little later, the father receives a high chair of the division of printing of the Leningrad regional Committee of the CPSU(b) and the family moved to Leningrad, where Arkady was enrolled at the school, which employed his mother. But the outbreak of the Second world war radically changed the very happy life of Strugatsky. He and his family had to overcome a very difficult test, namely the siege of Leningrad. Arkady goes to work on the construction of the fortifications of the city, and later to the plant where they made grenades. But that's not all: when the opportunity arose to evacuate, sick Boris and Arkady's father has to leave his mother and brother there. But on the way to the Urals Strugatsky father falls ill and dies. Photo Arkady's father Nathan Strugatsky.
Later, Arkady worked at the point of purchasing products from the peasants, where he rose to the head, and by the summer of ' 43 he, thankfully, manages to take his mother and brother, after which he decides to join the ranks of the red Army. He subsequently graduated from the Military Institute of foreign languages, where he trained as an interpreter from Japanese and English.
For a long 6 years of life Arcadia takes place in the far East, where he not only serves, but also teaches Japanese to the students at the school. Only in 1955, he managed to move to Moscow, where he worked in the Institute for scientific information, editor at Goslitizdat and Detgiz. And in 1956 published his first art publication "Bikini Ashes" (while in collaboration with Lev Petrov, written in the years of service in the army. She was devoted to the tragic events surrounding the explosion of a hydrogen bomb at Bikini Atoll, however, according to the Strugatsky, is not particularly valuable.
Write Arkady began in the war years, but these works were lost. However, in 2001, published the story "killed Kang", written back 46. In addition, under the name S. Yaroslavtsev Strugatsky was written several short stories: "the Expedition to hell" (1974, parts 1-2; 1984, part 3), the story "the details of Nikita Vorontsov" (1984) and the novel "the Devil among men" (1990-91).
Of course, a special success came to Arcadia in the days work with his brother. Once a year the brothers met to discuss the plot of the future work and completing the main plot. The next time they met only when working on "their" works were completed to form the final version.
Their joint work has entered the Golden Fund of world science fiction and have become classics atopiceski and dystopian fiction. The most well-known works were "Hard to be God", "beetle in the anthill", "Monday begins on Saturday", "Interns". Strugatsky works have been translated into 42 languages in 33 countries around the world (over 500 publications).
Strugatsky were winners of many prestigious awards: "Aelita", "the Great ring" prize of Verne, the British award "For independence of thought", was awarded the medal "Symbol of Science".
Filename Strugatsky named a minor planet №3054, open September 11, 1977 in the Crimean astrophysical Observatory.
Married Arkady Natanovich was twice, the second marriage had a daughter Mary, who later became the wife of the politician Yegor Gaidar, a descendant of the writer Arkady Gaidar.
We remember Arkady Strugatsky and its stunning transfers. Thanks to him, Soviet readers saw the stories of ryunosuke Akutagawa, the novels of Kobo Abe, Soseki Natsume and others In the 70s Strugatsky was an honorary member of the editorial Board of the journal "World of adventure" anthology "Library of contemporary fiction", "Knowledge is power", and in ' 85 became the editor of "Ural Pathfinder", turning this journal into the main mouthpiece of Soviet and foreign science fiction.
And most recently, the honor society in St. Petersburg issued a decree about assignment of a nameless square in the Moscow area named after the Strugatsky brothers. Square, which was named in honor of famous writers, located at the intersection of Moskovsky Prospekt, street Frunze and Victory. By the way, lived close to the Boris Strugatsky.
Died Arkady Natanovich Strugatsky liver cancer, with whom he waged a long struggle in which, however, lost. Bequest of the writer, his ashes scattered over Moscow, and millions of readers around the world will remember him for his witty and sharp remarks about life and that he, together with his brother (and sometimes alone) gave in his works the answers to the eternal questions: how to make the right decision, to find themselves and not lose out in this big world. And here, perhaps the best of them.
"It's very sinful, but when I'm with you, I don't need God."
"It's amazing how fast are the waves of delight. Gnaw themselves, to hurt themselves, to compel and itch for hours a day, and the excitement comes and then goes.
"Children can not be beat. Them and without you their lives would bash and Sundry, but if you want to hit him, give it in the face yourself, it will be more useful".
"For weeks, spend a soul on dirty talk with every scum, and when you meet a real person to talk no time at all.
"That's right: the money a person needs to never stop thinking about it".
"Twenty times better to err on the person than be treated with suspicion by everyone."
"Everyone in something so genius. You just need to find it is brilliant".
"Among them no one knew exactly what happiness is and what the meaning of life. And they took a working hypothesis that happiness is a continuous knowledge of the unknown and the meaning of life is."
"The trouble is that we don't notice as the years pass. To hell with the years, we don't notice everything changing. We know that everything changes, we are taught from childhood that everything changes, we have seen many times with my own eyes how things are changing, and at the same time, we are not able to notice the moment when there is a change, or looking for a change not where it should be."
"Only one will reach the goal, who doesn't know the word "fear".
"In our case can not be friends half. The other half is always half an enemy."
"Or you maybe do not understand what it is need? When it is impossible to do without. This is when all the time I think o Is when all life strive for".
"We know that there's only one way to do business and many ways from the case to avoid".
"I thought, thought, nothing useful came up and decided to spit!"
"Here we better ourselves, improve ourselves, become better, smarter, kinder, and still nice when someone takes your decision for you..."
"I don't feel sorry for myself! And I got a sacred right not to feel sorry for the others!.."
"It is like the grave: never too late and always early."
"...the thing is to learn to wipe. I spit in the face, and you suck. First, shame wiped her face, then confusion, and then, suddenly, you begin to wipe with dignity and even receive from this process pleasure..."