Year: 2020
Type: article
Abstract: In 1920, Russian writer Evgueni Zamyatin publishes one of the most important novels of the utopian genre, We, a dystopian futuristic satire in which Zamyatin brings the totalitarian aspects of Sovietism to the extreme consequences. Two decades later, Swedish writer Karin Boye publishes Kallocain, a dystopia in which, as in We, the dystopian future is presented as a universe in which citizens' lives are violently controlled. In this article we will observe how the reflection on dystopia proposed in Zamyatin and Boye's novels is still current in relation to Power, the State, violence and female presence.
Author: Biagio D'Angelo
Institution: Universidade de Brasília
Language: English
Subfield: Philosophy
Field: Arts and Humanities
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: diamond
OpenAlex ID: W3010678678