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Alfred Deblin (1878-1957) belongs to the cohort of the most prominent German writers of the twentieth century. He is known primarily for his experimental novel Berlin Alexanderplatz (1929), which is now considered one of the most important German-language prose works of the twentieth century, and his equally astonishing novel Mountains of the Sea and Giants (1924), which is set at the intersection of futurology, science fiction, dystopia, and visionaryism.

"The Mountains of the Sea and the Giants" is a unique and innovative novel not only because of the author's peculiar approach to punctuation, but also because of the overall complex form and style of the narrative, so it is difficult, if not impossible, to define the genre of the work within the framework of the classical genre division. Researchers of Deblin's work are still arguing whether it is a philosophical dystopia, bizarre science fiction, or a parable about the coming apocalypse that humanity has brought upon itself through its own destructive nature and irrational desire for self-destruction. Nevertheless, everyone agrees that Mountains of the Sea and Giants is an extraordinary phenomenon both for Alfred Deblin's own work and for German literature in general.

An experimental and surprising novel in every sense, Mountains of the Sea and Giants by Alfred Deblin stands apart not only from German and world prose in general, but also radically differs from other works by the author himself, as it is Deblin's only fantastic text. All the more interesting is this creative experiment and challenge that Deblin threw to himself, creating a novel that cannot be defined by any of the genres known today, but only the approximate perimeter of genre approximation can be outlined - dystopia, futurology, science fiction, and even an eschatological treatise on the apocalypse.

The novel takes place in the distant future over five centuries, when humanity, as well as life itself on Earth, is undergoing global and radical changes. The Great Ural War as the final outcome of the eternal confrontation between Eastern and Western civilisations, the melting of the Greenland glaciers and the release of powerful prehistoric plant-animal hybrids from the permafrost, genetic engineering, transhumanism and the rejection of technology for the sake of returning to the simple life of long-gone and forgotten eras, the latest bizarre social and geopolitical systems, and perhaps even the apocalypse as the end of the old world and the emergence of a new world, completely different and alien to our present, Deblin paints a wide and ambitious vision of the distant future of human civilisation, a future that surprises and terrifies, but which, despite everything, is at the same time a logical continuation and consequence of our difficult and turbulent present.