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The plot follows a day in the life of the title character; a prisoner sentenced to 10 years in a gulag somewhere in the Asian part of the Soviet Union in 1951.
The book is a genre of popular science literature with elements of technological vision and futurism, characteristic of the era in which it was created – the time of the Cold War, the space race, and great expectations from science.
The novel explores the destructive forces of inheritance, passion, and violence in modern industrial society. The action takes place largely on the railroad, a symbol of speed, destiny, and inevitable doom. “Beast Man” is the first description of crime in
