Новый перевод "Пикника на обочине" с иллюстрациями великого Дейва МакКина www.foliosociety.com/roadside
Illustrated by Dave McKean
Introduced by Dave McKean
Foreword by Ursula K. Le Guin
Afterword by Boris Strugatsky
Translated by Olena Bormashenko

Illustrating the Strugatsky brothers’ work was a lifetime ambition for award-winning illustrator Dave McKean. ‘I first visited the Zone in art school. Before then, I didn’t feel the warp of time and reality that art can achieve […] my childhood kicks were all sitting on the surface of normality.’ McKean’s love for the novel is obvious, as he draws the reader into the strange topography of the Zones and their enigmatic artefacts. Seven double-page illustrations, including a double-sided fold-out, reveal his startling vision, and the design on the foil-printed endpapers is a beguiling interpretation of the mythical Golden Sphere – a recurring obsession in this dystopian tale. McKean’s exclusive new introduction contextualises his artwork: ‘I’m not surprised Roadside Picnic and the film it seeded, Stalker, have become talismanic artifacts for some of us, some seekers, psychogeographers, and creators. It crystalizes the creative act, of visiting a place where the laws of physics and rationality are unreliable.’