Picnic sul ciglio della strada

Stalker

270 pages

Italian language

Published Nov. 26, 2022 by Marcos y Marcos.

ISBN:
978-88-9294-055-0
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Roadside Picnic (Russian: Пикник на обочине, Piknik na obochine, IPA: [pʲɪkˈnʲik nɐ ɐˈbotɕɪnʲe]) is a philosophical science fiction novel by Soviet-Russian authors Arkady and Boris Strugatsky, written in 1971 and published in 1972. It is the brothers' most popular and most widely translated novel outside the former Soviet Union. As of 2003, Boris Strugatsky counted 55 publications of Roadside Picnic in 22 countries.The story is published in English in a translation by Antonina W. Bouis. A preface to the first American edition was written by Theodore Sturgeon. Stanisław Lem wrote an afterword to the German edition of 1977. The book has been the source of many adaptations and other inspired works in a variety of media, including stage plays, video games, and television series. The 1979 film Stalker, directed by Andrei Tarkovsky, is loosely based on the novel, with a screenplay written by the Strugatsky brothers. The term stalker became …

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Meraviglie dell'impossibile

4 stars

Da sempre sono attratto e incuriosito dalla (apparente?) dicotomia tra scienza e fede, tra indagabile e inesprimibile. Temi che ora ritrovo in questo romanzo di fantascienza. Il quadro generale è presto tracciato: c'è una Zona, un ampio territorio, che a seguito di una Visita aliena presenta anomalie di ogni genere, perlopiù pericolose e nocive per l'uomo. Gli Stalker entrano ed escono dalla Zona trafugando oggetti dalle proprietà insolite, i più lasciandoci la pelle. Gli scienziati invece studiano i fenomeni e ipotizzano spiegazioni. Di fronte al mistero e all'inconosciuto quindi due atteggiamenti: uno più pragmatico e uno più speculativo. Nessuno dei quali atto a "spiegare" fino in fondo ciò che si ha di fronte. Detto ciò, dentro questo quadro si muovono personaggi e si intrecciano storie a creare uno dei più classici romanzi di fantascienza. La lettura è scorrevole e avvincente. A margine non si può non accennare al capolavoro cinematografico …

I don't know what I was expecting...but it wasn't this

5 stars

I picked this up based on the media that has been influenced by it, like the Tarkovsky film, the STALKER games, Metro 2033, Tales of the Loop etc. Usually when you move from the influences and adaptations and return to the source work, you find a tighter and more concentrated version of what came after but with Roadside Picnic almost the opposite is true. Having consumed quite a bit of media that borrow from the tense, otherworldly horror of RP's Zone sections I was unprepared for the breadth of the book. I didn't expect it to, by turns, become a Noirish thriller, a jet black comedy, and a philosphilical treatise on human nature and capitalism.

It seems to me that this should be on every SF enthusiast's 'required reading' list but it doesn't seem like many people bother to read it and that's a huge shame. Especially because it says …

Review of 'Roadside Picnic' on 'Goodreads'

3 stars

If I had to pick one word to describe Roadside Picnic, it would be clever. All about this book feels rascalous, chaotic, full of energy and vitality. I think the main theme here is how people and culture can adapt to almost anything. No matter how bleak, odd or desperate the situation, the spark of life can be found in the most unexpected of places and that's something I'd gladly take to my heart from this book, especially in these trying times.