TY - JOUR AU - Milenic, Zarko PY - 2020/12/12 Y2 - 2024/03/29 TI - THE PICTURE OF THE MIDDLE AGES IN THE NOVEL “HARD TO BE A GOD” BY A. AND B. STRUGATSKY JF - PALIMPSEST / ПАЛИМПСЕСТ JA - PALMK VL - 5 IS - 10 SE - КНИЖЕВНОСТ/ LITERATURE DO - 10.46763/PALIM20100035m UR - https://js.ugd.edu.mk/index.php/PAL/article/view/3836 SP - 35-42 AB - The article will examine how the authors Arkady and Boris Strugatsky created their own picture of the Middle Ages in the story “Hard to be a God” (1964). The events in the novel unfold on another planet with an unknown name, in the city Arkanar, the capital of the Arkanar kingdom. This planet is a part of the so-called World of Noon in literary pieces by Strugatsky Brothers and represents a special world that can be compared with the transitional stage between late feudalism and the Renaissance in the history of the Earth.Keywords: Russian literature of the XX century, science fiction, A. and B. Strugatsky, Middle Ages. ER -