The book is a collection of articles on the images of the future in art. Contents: Problema budushchego v filosofii; V poiskakh al"ternativ mul"tikul"turalizmu: Marks, Bakhtin i khidzhaby na Eliseiskikh poliakh; Obraz budushchego v russkom simvolizme; Ideal budushchego v sovetskoi literature i publitsistike pervoi treti XX veka; Literatura segodnia: kuda i zachem; Innovatsii i teatr: proryv v budushchee ili proval v tupik; Maiakovskii: vyzov i tragediia sovetskogo proekta, etc.