Cristobal Junta

Cristobal Hozevich Junta, head of the Meaning of Life department, was a remarkable man, but apparently completely heartless. Once, in early youth, he was for a long time the Grand Inquisitor and to this day he retained the manners of that time. He made almost all his inconvenient experiments either on himself or on his employees, and this was outraged with me at the general trade union meeting. He was engaged in the study of the meaning of life, but he did not move very far, although he obtained interesting results, proving, for example, theoretically, that death is by no means an indispensable attribute of life. Regarding this latest discovery, they also resented - at a philosophical seminar.

He almost did not let anyone into his office, and there were vague rumors about the institute that there were a lot of interesting things. It was said that in the corner of the office there was a wonderfully made scarecrow of an old acquaintance of Cristobal Hozevich, Standartenführer SS , in full full dress, with a monocle, a dirk, an iron cross, oak leaves and other items. Junta was a great taxidermist. Standartenführer, according to Cristobal Chozevich, too. But Cristobal Hozevich had time earlier. He liked to have time before - always and in everything. Some skepticism was no stranger to him. In one of his laboratories hung a huge poster: "Do we need us?" Very extraordinary man.

- Arkady and Boris Strugatsky , "Monday starts on Saturday"

One of the luminaries, the former grand inquisitor . His name is nominal (" You are not Cristobal Junta, and I, too, " PNVS). But, in contrast to the common nominal name of Professor Vybegallo , the name of Cristobal Hozevich is the highest mark of professionalism and skill. " Smooth skin, grace, slimness " (PNVS) - is about him in the first place.

A wonderful man, but utterly heartless; possesses a philosophical turn of mind, does not tolerate charity, and therefore is extremely objective; he writes Russian in Gothic letters, which makes his handwriting inconvenient; It has the peculiarity of calling people in the Spanish manner: Theodore (Fedor Simeonovich), Alejandro (Sasha Privalov), which gives it an already always elegant speech with a special flavor. In his whole image, Spain is felt, with an almost painful sense of dignity and honor, with a strange neighborhood of composure and fervor. His name is pure Spanish; his ethnicity is the salt of the whole name, since it does not have a bright phonetic coloration, which would be worth noting a very good one at the end of the name - this gives particular neatness and completeness. It is very unexpected that Junta has a middle name, which completely contradicts the foreign nomination. In the case of Junta, the patronymic most likely shows his affiliation to society NIICHAVO, his appreciation there, indisputable respect and admiration of his colleagues. The presence of the patronymic is probably affected by the friendly and creative neighborhood of Fyodor Simeonovich: it is difficult to call one of this inseparable couple by name and patronymic, and the other somehow.

From the first story there are other information about his past: for example, he lived in the time of Charlemagne, for whom he obtained a "Chinese dragon who had been dragged to the Moors, but found out that the king was going to fight not with the Arabs, but with" tribal Basques "(Here the Strugatskys reproduce the actual state of affairs contrary to the version of" Song of Roland ")," was enraged and deserted. " In the modern world, Cristobal Junta is interested in problems for which the absence of a solution has been proven, which sometimes leads to disastrous consequences, such as the failure of a computer, for example.

A number of sayings of Cristobal Junta turned out to be memorable and are used in various artistic and applied works. In particular, this was the reasoning of the character that “nonsense is to seek a solution if it already is,” while the real problem is “how to deal with a task that does not have a solution” . The article df fm n Nikolai Nikolayevich Nepeyvoda called "Methods of Cristobal Junta" notes that it is only at the Olympiads and competitions all tasks are deliberately solvable. In the present life, specialists sometimes have to face obviously intractable tasks that need to be solved somehow. ^[one] The same phrase is used by Nick Perumov when he explains the motives of his searches in the fields of philosophy, history of religion, mystical movements. ^[2]

The episode with Standarfenführer is used to make analogies with the political struggle. ^[3]

Cristobal Junta, in his judgments that a person can be morally injured with a shout, quotes the magazine Family and School ^[4] . It also refers to the journal "Soviet Pedagogy . "

Cristobal Junta appears in the works of other writers.

• In the collections “Conductor from here” ^[5] and ““ L ”means people” ^{[6] of} Sergey Lukyanenko .

• In the fantasy "Witches, Incorporated" by Mikhail Kholodilin. ^[7]

• It often appears in fan fiction - say, in the Harry Potter fan fiction, in which the authors introduce heroes from Russia; As a rule, the Junta itself is not there, but it is present in the memoirs and remarks of Russian heroes (just like NIICHAVO itself).

• Kaganskaya M., Bar-Sella Z. , Gomel I. Yesterday's Tomorrow: A Book about Russian and Non-Russian Fiction. - M .: Russian State. Humanities University , 2004. - 323 p. - ISBN 5-7281-0336-7 .
• Hrakovsky V.S. , Volodin A.P., Kasevich V.B. Semantics and typology of the imperative: Russian imperative. - Academy of Sciences of the USSR , Institute of Linguistics . - SPb. : Science , 1986. - 270 p.
• Amusin M.F. Strugatsky brothers. - Jerusalem: Beseder, 1996. - p. 48. - 187 p. - ISBN 9-6570-3106-0 .
• Borisov V.I. Worlds of the Strugatsky brothers: encyclopedia. - AST , 1999. - T. 2, "M - I". - p. 246,300,360. - (Worlds of the Strugatsky brothers). - 5000 copies - ISBN 5-237-01562-X .
• Kononov V., Omsk Regional Youth Library, Small Enterprise “Cepheus”, Fiction Lovers Club “Alkor”, Feng Group “Lyudeny”. Strugatsky about himself, literature and the world: 1976-1981 / Valery Kononov. - Omsk: si , 1991. - V. 3. - C. 3. - ISBN OCLC Number: 32263279.
• Severova N.G. Chapter III in a special artistic space . The Strugatsky Art World: Elective on Literature. - Ekaterinburg: AMB, 2001. - p. 37. - 97 p. - ISBN 5-8057-0136-7 .

• // Polska Akademia Nauk, Komitet Językoznawstwa. = (Polish) Onomastica: pismo poświęcone nazewnictwu geograficznemu i osobowemu / Witold Taszycki. - Wrocław: Zakład Narodowy im. Ossolińskich, 1986. - T. 30-31. - p. 8. - ISBN ISSN: 0078-4648.