“The City Beyond the River” is a book that, along with the works of the colossi of German literature Kafka and Jünger, stands on a par with the classic dystopia “1984” by Orwell. A mysterious and gloomy city without a name. In it, totalitarianism is brought to the absolute, not only the actions and words, but also the thoughts of the inhabitants are subject to control. One day, the linguist Robert Lindhof ends up here, who, as the city archivist, will have to deal with the issues of the immortality of works of literature. Here he meets both old acquaintances and his former love, and only then begins to understand that he has found himself in the city of the dead. And there is no way out of this hopelessness...