Die Schnecke Am Hang by Arkady Strugatsky
A surreal, two-part novel that alternates between a claustrophobic bureaucratic world and an expedition into a mysterious, mutable forest; it follows a man who becomes lost in the forest’s bizarre ecosystems and the tangled attempts of colleagues and officials to make sense of—or control—what they cannot understand, using the absurd and the uncanny to examine alienation, the failures of communication, and the uneasy tension between human institutions and a living, inscrutable nature.
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- Published
- 1966
- Nationality
- Russian
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- Original Language
- Russian
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- Die Schnecke am Hang
- The Snail on the Slope
- Улитка на склоне
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