[SOVIET SCIENCE FICTION AND DYSTOPIA ? NO COPIES IN WORLDCAT] Liubov' v tumane budushchego (istoriia odnogo romana v 4560 godu) [Love in the fog of the future: a story of one love affair in the year 4560]

Marsov, Andrei and Vadim Romanov, artist

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Leningrad: Gublit, 1924. Octavo (19 ? 14 cm). Original staple-stitched illustrated wrappers; 39 pp. Light soil and foxing to wrappers; fading due to stock. Still about very good. First and only freestanding edition of this dystopian satire exploring the theme of the impossibility of personal happiness in a totalitarian society ruled by a single ideology, with Futurist-inspired wrappers by Vadim Romanov (possibly a pseudonym). Published during a period of New Economic Policy (NEP; 1921?1928), when some modest private enterprise was possible in the Soviet Union; the author, Andrei Marsov (1901?after 1939?), seems to have paid to publish this work in a print run of 2.000 copies. Due to its clearly critical treatment of Soviet reality, despite the great popularity of the science fiction genre, the work was never re-published in the Soviet Union. In the post-Soviet period it has been translated into French, and reprinted in several Science Fiction anthologies, most recently in 2022. Andrzej Dr??d? points to Andrei Marsov as one of the courageous authors of the early 1920s who ?mysteriously disappeared? after the publication of this satire, naming him alongside Yevgenii Zamiatin and Andrei Platonov as one of the founders of the Soviet dystopian novel genre (See ?Parodies of Authority in the Soviet Anti-utopias from 1918?1930,? in More after More: Essays Commemorating the Five-Hundredth Anniversary of Thomas More?s Utopia, 2016). As of April 2025, no copies located in KVK, OCLC.

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• Titre: [SOVIET SCIENCE FICTION AND DYSTOPIA ? NO COPIES IN WORLDCAT] Liubov' v tumane budushchego (istoriia odnogo romana v 4560 godu) [Love in the fog of the future: a story of one love affair in the year 4560]
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