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"Monday", "Picnic", "At the Grave of the Fallen Mountaineer", "Snail", "Baby".
Yes, definitely great works! ... Among my favorites, I also have "It's Hard to Be a God" and "The Boy from Hell" :) :) :) If anyone hasn't read them yet, I highly recommend them :) ... Here...
Here's another favorite excerpt from "Monday":
"The happiest are the jesters, fools, simpletons, and the careless, for they know no lessons of conscience, they do not fear ghosts and other undead, they are not tormented by the fear of future misfortunes, and they are not deluded by the hope of future blessings"...
"On the capitals of the columns and in the labyrinths of the gigantic chandelier hanging from the blackened ceiling, bats and flying foxes rustled. Modest Matveyevich fought them. He poured them with turpentine and creosote, dusted them, sprayed them with hexachlorane; they died in the thousands, but were reborn in tens of thousands. They mutated; among them appeared singing and talking strains, and the descendants of the most ancient species now fed exclusively on pyrethrum mixed with chlorophos, and the institute's film projectionist, Sanya Drozd, swore that he had once seen a bat here that looked exactly like the head of the film department"...
