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[For the entire collection see Zbl 0745.00050.] We consider positive solutions of the equation (1) \(\Delta u= au^ p\) in \(D\), where \(p>1\), \(D\) is a domain in \(\mathbb{R}^ N\), \(N\geq 3\), and \(a\) is a continuous, nonnegative function in \(\overline{D}\). We are interested in the large solutions of (1), i.e. those positive solutions \(u\) which satisfy \(u(x)\to\infty\) as \(x\to \partial D\). We study the questions of existence and uniqueness of large solutions of (1) in cases where the coefficient \(a\) may vanish at a finite number of points in \(D\) and (if \(D\) is unbounded) it may tend to zero at infinity or it may be unbounded. In addition we investigate the asymptotic behaviour of large solutions at the boundary of the domain and at infinity.