“Love in the Fog of the Future” (subtitle: “The Story of a Novel in 4560” ) is a Russian novel, an anti-utopia of Andrei Marsov, published in 1924.
| Love in the Fog of the Future: A Story of a Novel in 4560 | |
|---|---|
| Genre | dystopia |
| Author | Andrey Marsov |
| Original language | Russian |
| Date of writing | 1924 |
| Date of first publication | 1924 |
Content
Contents
An image of the distant future, the story of Mars echoes the famous anti-utopia “ We ” by Evgeny Zamyatin (1920; published in 1924). In particular, in the story, the idea of the impossibility of personal happiness and love in a strictly regulated totalitarian socialist society is held. But if the state described by Zamyatin is abstract, then in the unified, “nullified” (people also have personal numbers here) Mars’s world, Russia is quite distinctly mentioned as part of a certain world community - the Council of the World Mind . In this world, everything is subject to control - thoughts, feelings, birth and death.
Quote from the story:
| The supreme administration of the Great Republic was concentrated in the hands of the Council of the World Mind, which, having built life on completely new principles, achieved complete harmony between the internal experiences and external actions of mankind. Since the discovery of the ultra-Ramse rays, which made it possible to photograph the innermost thoughts, all the impulses of the subconscious "I" of each individual were taken under the strictest control ... Criminals no longer existed, since crimes were revealed before they were committed, and humanity freed from all evil and criminal, drunk with brotherly love, enthusiastically surrendered to fruitful work in the framework of self-improvement ... After several generations, people have reached the peak of prosperity. |
Author and Edition History
The author of the story, Andrei Vasilievich Mars, was born on October 25, 1901 in St. Petersburg in the family of a real state adviser Vasily Marsov. [1] The story “Love in the Fog of the Future” became his first and last literary work. According to the diaries of Marsov, the creation of the work was inspired by his youthful love for the ballerina Elena Luke .
The story was published at the expense of the author in 1924.
In Soviet times, the story was not reprinted; the first post-Soviet publication (as part of the Library of Russian Fantastic Prose) took place in 1999.
Editions
- Andrey Marsov. Love in the Fog of the Future: (The Story of a Novel in 4560) / Cover of the artist V. Roman. - L .: Author's publication, 1924. - 39 p.
- Andrey Marsov. Love in the fog of the future (story) // Russian fantastic prose of the 10-20s. XX century / Comp., Note., Selection of illustrations by Yu. Medvedev; The design is thin. G.I. Metchenko. - M .: Russian book, 1999 .-- S. 199-220. - 512 s. - (Library of Russian Science Fiction; Vol. 14). - 5700 copies. - ISBN 5-268-01070-0 , ISBN 5-268-01034-4 .
Notes
- ↑ Andrey Vasilievich Marsov on the MyHeritage website.
Literature
- Sadowski Jakub. Rewolucja i kontrrewolucja obyczajyw. Rodzina, prokreacja i przestrzeń życia w rosyjskim dyskursie utopijnym lat 20. i 30. XX wieku. - Łódź: Ibidem, 2005 .-- 149 p. - 400 copies.
Links
- Love in the Fog of the Future // Encyclopedia of Science Fiction: Who is Who / Ed. Vl. Gakova . - Minsk : IKO "Galaxy", 1995. - 694 p. - ISBN 985-6269-01-6 .
- Evgeny Kharitonov. Russian Utopia Field
- About the story in the "Science Fiction Laboratory"
- The bibliography of fiction by V. G. Velchinsky. 1924 year.