L’An deux mille quatre cent quarante – voyage imaginaire dans le temps selon le schéma canonique

• Authors: Stanisław Świtlik

Title variants

EN

The Year 2440: A Dream If Ever There Was One

Abstracts

EN

The aim of this paper is to comment the links between the work of Louis-Sébastien Mercier, The Year 2440: A Dream If Ever The Was One, and narrative utopia model. The Mercier’s work is often considered as inventive fiction which presents a new type of utopia focused on the future, but a large number of traditional narrative strategies is used by the author to show Paris in 25th century. The future civilization is built on the Enlightenment ideas but it remains still attached by its culture to the 18th century. The Mercier’s work is inspired by the utopism but in this fiction the reader finds more a fictional realization of dreams and philosophical thinking about human nature.

Keywords

EN

Louis-Sébastien Mercier; The Year 2044: A Dream If Ever There Was One; imaginary journey; narrative utopia; utopism

FR

Louis-Sébastien Mercier; L’An deux mille quatre cent quarante. Rêve s’il en fût jamais; voyage imaginaire; utopie narrative; utopisme

• Publisher: Uniwersytet Gdański
• Journal: Cahiers ERTA
• Year: 2023
• Issue: 35
• Pages: 103-124

Dates

published

2023

Contributors

author

Stanisław Świtlik

• Université catholique de Lublin Jean-Paul II

• https://orcid.org/000000017747136X

Identifiers

Biblioteka Nauki

20874704