The City Beyond the River

The City Beyond the River — a book that stands alongside the works of the titans of German literature Kafka and Jünger, in the same line as the classic dystopia 1984 by Orwell. A mysterious and dark city with no... name. Here, totalitarianism is taken to the absolute, and not only actions and words are controlled, but also the thoughts of the inhabitants. One day, a linguist named Robert Lindhof arrives here, where, as the city archivist, he must deal with the issues of the immortality of literary works. Here, he meets both old acquaintances and his former love, and only then does he begin to understand that he has entered the city of the dead. And there is no escape from this hopelessness…