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proximoception ([personal profile] proximoception) wrote2013-07-20 09:37 pm

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A non-spoiler Stalker question (though answers may spoil):

Why's the title an English word? Presumably Russian has its own full panoply of hunting terms.

[identity profile] grashupfer.livejournal.com 2013-07-21 05:22 pm (UTC)(link)
I was going to speculate with a really outlandish answer, but the reason is told in the Wikipedia article about the film.

[identity profile] proximoception.livejournal.com 2013-07-21 05:29 pm (UTC)(link)
A-wikiing I will go.

[identity profile] proximoception.livejournal.com 2013-07-21 05:36 pm (UTC)(link)
The source novel sounds like a thrillerization of Borges' Uqbar.