NP; Strugatskii Brothers & Stalker

[Dave Monroe]

... no complaints about Stalker or the Brothers Strugatsky from me, see
also their Definitely Maybe, filmed under the title Days of Eclipse
(which I haven't seen, but Fredric Jameson discusses it in his The
Geopolitical Aesthetic).  Next up: Aelita, Queen of Mars, by Alexei
"Realtive of some sort of Leo" Tolstoy, and the filmed adaptation
thereof, vs. Thea von Harbou's Metropolis and hubby Fritz Lang's fim
thereof, compare 'n' contrast ...

Nicole Slagter wrote:

> Heartfelt thanks to the P-lister (I think it was Derek Maus) who,
> quite some time ago, mentioned that Tarkovsky's Stalker was
> based on a novel by the Strugatskii brothers. Being a big fan of
> Stalker (unlike some on this list, I seem to remember), I've been
> on the lookout for the book ever since. And I finally found it!
> Read it every bit as avidly as the happy HP4 owners.
> Trying for some tenuous Pynchon connection: the book/film deal
> with life `in the Zone' (places altered by extraterrestrial visits,
> in this case). Brian McHale has an exellent chapter on zones in
> postmodernist fiction in his book of the same name.
>
> Nicole S. (longest time lurker on the list, I should think)