The Snail on the Slope, Arkady Strugatsky
The Snail on the Slope, Arkady Strugatsky
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The Snail on the Slope

Author: Arkady Strugatsky, Boris Strugatsky, Olena Bormashenko

Narrator: Chris Andrew Ciulla

Unabridged: 9 hr 35 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 08/01/2018

Synopsis

The Snail on the Slope takes place in two distinct worlds. One is the Administration, an institution run by a surreal, Kafkaesque bureaucracy whose aim is to govern the forest below. The other is the Forest, a place of fear, weird creatures, primitive people, and violence. Peretz, who works at the Administration, wants to visit the Forest. Candide crashed in the Forest years ago and wants to return to the Administration. Their journeys are surprising and strange, and listeners are left to puzzle out the mysteries of these foreign environments. The Strugatskys themselves called The Snail on the Slope “the most perfect and the most valuable of our works.”

About Arkady Strugatsky

Arkady Strugatsky (1925–1991) was drafted into the Soviet army and trained at the Military Institute of Foreign Languages in Moscow, from which he graduated in 1949 as an interpreter of English and Japanese. He worked as a teacher and interpreter for the military until 1955, when he began to work as an editor and writer. In 1958 he began to collaborate with his brother, Boris. Along with his brother, he is one of the most famous and popular Russian writers of science fiction. Together they wrote twenty-five novels and novellas, and their books have been widely translated and made into a number of films.

About Boris Strugatsky

Boris Strugatsky (1933–2012) worked as an astronomer and computer engineer until 1966, when he became a full-time writer. Along with his brother, Arkady, he is one of the most famous and popular Russian writers of science fiction. Together they wrote twenty-five novels and novellas, and their books have been widely translated and made into a number of films.

About Chris Andrew Ciulla

Chris Andrew Ciulla, an Earphones Award–winning narrator with over 350 credits, is an on-screen actor, voice actor, host, boxing analyst, and radio personality. He has performed characters for the popular video game series Fallout and Mafia, and can be heard frequently voicing commercial campaigns. A versatile performer with over twenty-five years of experience, he produces original audio content under his own production banner, Leonardo Audio.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Vit

In spite of all its fantastic twists The Snail on the Slope is a philosophical novel. There are two worlds: The world of the order and progress… Progress may turn out to be completely indifferent to the notions of kindness and honesty, just like it has been indifferent to them thus far. The Administrat......more

Goodreads review by Tzeck

Покъртителна! Не бих посмял да твърдя, че разбрах всичко в нея. Мисля, че ще се наложи препрочитане. Прекрасни метафори има - да. И още по-прекрасното е как те са представени в полуокултна и митично-мистична форма в началото и постепенно и плавно придобиват реални и обясними очертания. Поне тези в Г......more

Goodreads review by Віталій

Цікавий ефект в собі помітив - часом пам'ятаю прочитані книжки в більш м'якому та позитивному ключі, ніж сприймав їх під час читання. От зараз перечитав Равлика і вона місцями трохи жорсткіша, а місцями трохи нудніша, ніж я про неї пам'ятав. Дуже кафкіанська і дещо карнавально-психоделічна річ. Якщ......more

Goodreads review by Wombat

Eh... I don't know what to really say about this one. I get that it's trying to make an analogy of insane bureaucracy in soviet Russia, but I just don't find the story or writing that compelling. The two main characters, Pepper and Kandid, are on the two sides of this eternal struggle - one in the ins......more

Quotes

“Intensely surreal…Approached as a meditation on the human inability to comprehend more than a very small part of the universe, this is a surprisingly satisfying, if often perplexing, work.” Publishers Weekly

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