Pictures don’t lie. Utopias, dystopias and “aesth-ethical” doubts
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https://doi.org/10.26512/vis.v18i2.29231Keywords:
Dystopia, Russian literature, Swedish literature, Power, Utopia.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.
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LE GUIN, Ursula K. “The Stalin in the Soul”, in The Language of the Night, New York: Putnam, 1979, p. 211-221.
________. A mão esquerda da escuridão. São Paulo: Aleph, 2008.
MILDONIAN, Paola. Alterego. Racconti in forma di diario tra Ottocento e Novecento. Venezia: Marsilio, 2001.
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___________, Nous autres. Paris: Gallimard, 1971.
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2020-01-17
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Pictures don’t lie. Utopias, dystopias and “aesth-ethical” doubts. (2020). Revista VIS: Revista Do Programa De Pós-Graduação Em Artes Visuais, 18(2), 63-75. https://doi.org/10.26512/vis.v18i2.29231
