Short-a-Day: Valery Bryusov's "The Republic of the Southern Cross"
Republished (from Russia, 1905) in A Public Space, No. 4, 2007. Personal enjoyment rating (out of 100): 83.[Part of the FOCUS: Antarctica series.] An entertaining, newspaper-like account of the last days of a fictional empire located in Antarctica, calling to mind the similar work of Steven Millhauser, who is, at times, a fellow feulilletonist. First, we learn of its founding: "A development from three hundred steel …