“An inspired sermon on inhumanity.” "The amazing ability to see what is not there." Latin American critics greeted this book with these words. The Chilean writer Jose Maria Villagra is still quite young and probably deserves not only flattering words, but, one way or another, “Antarctica” is the story that made people talk about him. “Antarctica” is a classic utopia. And, like any utopia, it is nightmarish. People are dying of happiness! What could be more hopeless? Heaven, in essence, is also the end of the world. In any case, it’s heaven on earth. This is a world where there is no evil, which means there is no good. And where love is indistinguishable from brutality. However, is all this really so fantastic? Despite the futurological orientation, the main idea of this story continues the theme to which, in fact, the entire world culture is devoted: everything around is not what it seems. Everything around only seems to us. And what has been said applies to the real world to a much greater extent than to the fictional one. The characters in this book ask a question that has been driving people crazy since the times of Plato and Aristotle. Why does life only seem to us? The escape from the unreality of existence begins with this question.