Cæsar's Column: A Story of the Twentieth Century

The narrative follows a visitor to a vast, stratified metropolis who becomes entangled with underground networks resisting an entrenched oligarchy. Through his wanderings and the testimonies of many figures he learns how concentrated wealth, brutal policing, and social neglect produced a brittle society, precipitating conspiracies, violent confrontations, and spectacular urban ruin. Interwoven chapters reconstruct the origins of the collapse, portray efforts to found an alternative community, and relate individual backstories that reveal systemic suffering. Scenes of technological spectacle and aerial force alternate with meetings, trials, and a final flight from the ruined capital, ending at a mountain refuge and uneasy reflections on utopian hopes.