About the book: 2011 / Unlike most utopias, in which beautiful-hearted authors depict humanity as planetary, consolidated on good principles, an almost flawless society, dystopians, whose peak universal popularity falls precisely in our time, they insist, in essence, on the eternal, ineradicable balance of evil and good. With the priority of the first, “naturally.” “There will be no City of the Sun,” as they say, “the world still lies in evil and nothing can be done about it. This has been the case since the time of the first man and will remain forever.” Eras, socio-political, as they used to say, formations, global ideologies and methodologies are changing. Even views on eternal truths (for example, “sodomy is bad”) undergo incredible metamorphoses. And only the measure of disharmony inherent in human nature remains unchanged. The anti-utopian “new wave” Anatoly Batov very boldly, with the help of his own literary and artistic tools, explores this permanent nature, infinitely far from perfection. Readers, having familiarized themselves with the results of these studies, for the most part will certainly be grateful to Batov.