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Love In The Fog Of The Future
''Love in the Fog of the Future. The story of a romance in the year 4560'' (Russian: Любовь в тумане будущего. История одного романа в 4560 году) is a dystopian novel and the only known book by the Russian writer Andrei Marsov, published in either 1923 or 1924. It is set in the distant future and has been compared to ''We (novel), We'' by Yevgeny Zamyatin, which is also a dystopian love story and was written just a few years earlier in 1921 (though published in 1924). Themes The book tackles the themes of the impossibility of attaining personal happiness and finding love under a totalitarian, socialist regime. References 1924 Russian novels Dystopian novels Novels about totalitarianism Russian literature {{1920s-sf-novel-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dystopia
A dystopia (from Ancient Greek δυσ- "bad, hard" and τόπος "place"; alternatively cacotopiaCacotopia (from κακός ''kakos'' "bad") was the term used by Jeremy Bentham in his 1818 Plan of Parliamentary Reform (Works, vol. 3, p. 493). or simply anti-utopia) is a speculated community or society that is undesirable or frightening. It is often treated as an Opposite (semantics), antonym of ''utopia'', a term that was coined by Sir Thomas More and figures as the title of his best known work, published in 1516, which created a blueprint for an ideal society with minimal crime, violence and poverty. The relationship between utopia and dystopia is in actuality not one simple opposition, as many utopian elements and components are found in dystopias as well, and ''vice versa''. Dystopias are often characterized by rampant fear or distress , tyrannical governments, environmental disaster, or other characteristics associated with a cataclysmic decline in society. Distinct th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
