Sfumato

5 hrs. 33 min.

Romance & Prose

Language Russian

Author Alexey Fedyarov

Narrator Sergey Zh.

Description

“Antiuopia,” or distopia (Dystopia — literally “a bad place,” from Greek “negation” + “place”), as well as kakotopia (Kakotopia — from Greek “bad”) is an image of a society or community perceived as undesirable, repulsive, or frightening. Antiutopias are typically characterized by dehumanization, a totalitarian structure of power, ecological disasters, and other signs of social collapse and degradation” (“Wikipedia”).

The country is changing—inevitably and rapidly; those who drive these changes act in a fuss and without proper calculation. Others follow their movement—calm ones. For now, they’re only watching. Their planning horizon is much farther. Both the first and the second are neither “good” nor “evil.” It’s simple: everyone is just trying to survive. Everyone is trying to hold on to what’s theirs. And it will be hardest for those who have a lot to lose in massive amounts.

Aleksey Fedyarov
A bad place. A cursed territory. Here, the shadows of the past dwell—and sometimes they turn out to be more alive than the living. The future blurs, and we move forward, tightly clenching in our hand the bony fingers of a skeleton from the shared closet.

This book is a classified master plan for the country’s development, which by sheer happenstance ended up with the author.

Get ready.