''Love in the Fog of the Future. The story of a romance in the year 4560'' (Russian: Любовь в тумане будущего. История одного романа в 4560 году) is a

dystopia A dystopia (from Ancient Greek δυσ- "bad, hard" and τόπος "place"; alternatively cacotopiaCacotopia (from κακός ''kakos'' "bad") was the term used by Jeremy Bentham in his 1818 Plan of Parliamentary Reform (Works, vol. 3, p. 493). ...

n novel and the only known book by the Russian writer

Andrei Marsov Andrei, Andrey or Andrej (in Cyrillic script: Андрэй , Андрей or Андреј) is a form of Andreas/ Ἀνδρέας in Slavic languages and Romanian. People with the name include: * Andrei of Polotsk (–1399), Lithuanian nobleman ...

, published in either 1923 or 1924. It is set in the distant future and has been compared to '' We'' by Yevgeny Zamyatin, which is also a dystopian love story and was written just a few years earlier in 1921 (though published in 1924).

Themes

The book tackles the themes of the impossibility of attaining personal happiness and finding love under a totalitarian, socialist regime.

References

1924 Russian novels Dystopian novels Novels about totalitarianism Russian literature {{1920s-sf-novel-stub