Прекосявайки с Хегел зоните на късносъветската (анти)утопия
Crossing with Hegel the Zones of the Late Soviet (Anti)Utopia

Summary/Abstract: During the late Soviet era, science fiction was one of the first zones of its ideological cosmos, registering the exhaustion of the communist utopia precisely within the literary genre aimed at its representation. In this articleI consider the history of the “editing to death” of the Strugatsky brothers’ shortnovel Roadside Picnic as a representative case of the anti-utopian “uneasiness incivilization” of late actually existing socialism. Simultaneously with the censorshiptaming of the uneasiness, the Strugatsky’s science fiction dystopia underwent aradical interpretation in Andrei Tarkovsky’s film adaptation Stalker as a Hegelian“good music with text”. In comparison to the censored edition, which is barely a timid emendation, ultimately yearning modestly for a good life during the most consumeristic and moderately repressive years of Soviet power, Tarkovsky’ s aesthetically singular re-reading is truly a “Zone” of editing to death.

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