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The Motif of Nature in Early Russian Soviet Utopian and Dystopian Novels

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Božić R.

Poznańskie Studia Slawistyczne

2022

issue 22

47-66

In this paper the most important works of Russian-Soviet literary utopia and dystopia have been analysed to investigate the role of nature. In literary utopias, people and their needs are the measure of all things, and the image of a utopian future is the vision of a nature so subdued that the need to eat and sleep have been subdued as well. Yet authors, such as Chayanov, emphasise the importance of a coexistence with nature. Dystopian authors ( Platonov and Zamyatin ) see the meaning of nature symbolically. They see nature not only as an unconquerable force, but also as a force entirely impermissible to defeat and that should not be defeated: for Platonov and Zamyatin nature is the eternal source of all that is to come.

W kręgu dwudziestowiecznej dystopii. O czytaniu powieści „Otok snova” Damira Miloša

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Boguska A.

Prace Filologiczne. Literaturoznawstwo

2014

issue 4(7)

417-433

The article is an attempt to show the novel Otok snova (Island of Dreams,1996) by Damir Miloš as an example of a dystopian text. The author portrays the presented world of the book, first, as a postmodern consumer space where the pursuit of attractions is a dominant human activity, second, she presents the same picture through the prism of hyperbolic deformation. In the novel the original idyll takes the contours of hell, as she suggests. However, the reflection does not finish in a defeatist way. The author indicates a possibility of transition from dystopia to micro-utopia, but only in the case of reading the novel in the context of other works written by Damir Miloš.

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The Motif of Nature in Early Russian Soviet Utopian and Dystopian Novels

W kręgu dwudziestowiecznej dystopii. O czytaniu powieści „Otok snova” Damira Miloša