On August 28, in the 97th year, Arkady Vladimirovich Kaplan, an outstanding traumatologist-orthopedist, who was and remains a Teacher, not only for us Zit members, but also all specialists of our once vast country, passed away. The teacher lived long life and, together with whole experienced severity totalitarian regime, hardships everyday life, bitterness defeat first years most cruel destruct...

This article re-reads Lauren Beukes’s debut novel Moxyland (2008) through an intermedial lens, focusing on the text’s multiple “nested” references to images, as well techniques of “braiding” where visual effects are woven into prose itself. The ubiquitous presence photography in suggests a pervasive thematic and stylistic visuality, which at times mimics ways seeing camera lens. A key structuri...

Dystopias are no longer defined as the opposite of utopias and mostly described by referring to type system they depict - “perfectly planned beneficial”, unjust” or unplanned” (Gordin, Tilley, Prakash 2010, 2). Furthermore, dystopias said reflect societies’ worries warn about some flaws religious, political systems, science in terms relationships between past, present, future. George Orwell’s “...