Utopia and Dystopia: 'a Brave new world' and the case of Jm Coetzee

In this paper, I make a case for the need to re-evaluate JM Coetzee's novel, The Master of Petersburg, in the global context of today, a context of ever increasing authoritarian populisms and erratic acts of violence. Published in 1994, the novel by the Nobel Laureate is set in Russia of the 1860s, against a backdrop of anarchist opposition to the Tsarist state. Critics have been puzzled by the writer 's apparently 'escapist' choice offictional setting at a time when his own country was in a turbulent transition from one dispensation to another. Central to my analysis is the danger of living in radicalised political times, while treading a precarious path between the utopia of revolutionary fervour and unpredictable dystopian unfoldings.

Loại tài liệu:

Article - Bài báo

Tác giả:

Dimitriu, Ileana Şora

Đề mục:

Novels

Nhà xuất bản:

West University of Timisoara, Faculty of Letters, History and Theology

Ngày xuất bản:

2019

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Nguồn gốc:

British and American Studies; Timisoara, Volume 25, 2019, Pages 133-142,282-283

Liên kết:

ISSN 1224-3086

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Utopia and Dystopia: 'a Brave new world' and the case of Jm Coetzee

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