Tale of the Troika

The Tale of the Troika (Russian Сказка о Тройке ) is a story of Arkady and Boris Strugatsky from 1967, the sequel to The Monday begins on Saturday.

Originally, this story should appear in the publishers Molodaja Gvardija and Detskaja Literatura, the publication has been rejected because of the criticism of the Soviet bureaucracy. In 1967, a shorter, more harmless version of the story was published in two issues of the magazine Angara in Irkutsk. Even then, the entire run of the Angara - expenditure was pulped; the chief editor of the magazine, Juri Samsonov, was dismissed from his post. In Soviet times, " The Tale of the Troika " was unauthorized published in German - Russian dissident publisher Posev. Twenty years later, the original version of the "troika" in the Soviet Union was published in the journal Smena.

Action

There are two versions of the book, which partially differ greatly in the plot. The first, longer version is available as " Smena - version " or known as " The Tale of the Troika -1". The second, shorter, version is called the Angara - version, or " The Tale of the Troika -2".

Smena - amended (the " Troika -1")

The staff of the National Institute of magic and sorcery ( NIITschaWO ), Alexander Priwalow, Witjka Kornejew, Roman Ojra - Ojra and Edik Amperjan travel to Kiteschgrad to take there for her institute certain magical artifacts in reception. These artifacts include the intelligent bug Goworun, the talking octopus Spiridon, the aliens Constantine, a snow man, a black box, etc. However, they will soon find that the competent authority, "Troika to streamline and Utilisieren of inexplicable phenomena " ( TPRUNJA, rus. ТПРУНЯ ) has immense power, grandiose ignorance and caricatured bureaucracy. The Troika is, strangely enough, of five persons: the chairman Lawr Fedotowitsch Wunjukow, the hysterical activists Rudolf Hlebowwodow, the opportunists Farfurkis, the constantly sleeping colonel Motorradivision and scientific adviser, Amwrosij Ambroisowitsch Wybegallo.

The young scientists must now cope with the bureaucratic authority - on the one hand they have to obtain the desired artifacts, on the other hand, avoid them to be tied useless, pseudo-scientific articles. The bureaucratic Troika in turn has a magical artifact - the Great Seal laps. The stamped with this seal decisions are inevitably and immediately reality. As an example, TPRUNJA decides that a mosquito bog is harmful to the economy, it immediately disappears from the card. At the end of the Troika is outwitted by the protagonists themselves form a sub-commission and distribute the desired objects in themselves.

Angara amended (the " Troika -2")

The second, less known version of the story has a different beginning and end. There, the Troika holds on in the legendary city Tjmuskorpion in the 76th floor of the NIITSchaWO building. It set off only Alexander Priwalow and Edik Amperjan to investigate the events in the 76th floor. In this version, Roman Ojra - Ojra and Witjka Kornejew, as well as some supporting characters such as the octopus Spiridon, the liquid aliens, the sleeping Colonel missing among others At the end of this version will be Alexander and Edik by the experienced magisters of magic, Fyodor Kiwrin and Cristóbal junta saved.

Interesting Facts

The two authors preferred different versions of the book. Boris Strugatsky preferred the longer version Smena, while Arkady Strugatsky preferred the shorter version of Angara.

German editions

Angara - version: Arkady and Boris Strugatsky In: The second invasion of the Martians. Two science- fiction narratives. Fantastic Library Volume 139, Suhrkamp paperback. 1st edition Frankfurt 1984 where: The Tale of the Troika, pp. 129 - 285 ISBN 3-518-37581-4.

Smena - version: in: Arkady and Boris Strugatsky: Troika. Fantastic novel. Fantastic Library, 300 Suhrkamp Taschenbuch 1990. ISBN 978-3518387214

References

Literary work
Literature ( Russian)
Literature ( 20th century)
Arkady and Boris Strugatsky work of
Story
Literature (Soviet Union)
Novel, epic

Angara River The Land of Crimson Clouds Space Apprentice Hard to Be a God The Final Circle of Paradise Prisoners of Power Roadside Picnic The Time Wanderers The Doomed City

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