''The Voyage to Icaria'' (French: ''Voyage en Icarie'' ) is a novel written by
Étienne Cabet and published in 1840. In this romance, he described a
communistic utopia, whose terms he had dreamed out; and he began at once to try to realize his dream. He framed a constitution for an actual Icaria. The
Icarians were a French utopian movement, founded by Étienne Cabet, who led his followers to America where they established a group of
egalitarian communes during the period from 1848 through 1898.
Karl Marx mentions ''Voyage en Icarie'' in an 1843 letter to
Arnold Ruge, contrasting the "communist utopia" of the book with the real and pragmatic conditions necessary for building socialism in the Germany of his time.
Letter from Marx to Arnold Ruge
Kreuzenach, September 1843; first published in the '' Deutsch-Französische Jahrbücher'', 1844; Retrieved 9 July 2018
References
External links
Voyage to Icaria (French) full text on Archive.org
by Charles Nordhoff
Charles Bernard Nordhoff (February 1, 1887 – April 10, 1947) was an American novelist and traveler, born in England. Nordhoff is perhaps best known for ''The Bounty Trilogy'', three historical novels he wrote with James Norman Hall: ''Mutiny o ...
, 1875
1840 French novels
1840s science fiction novels
French science fiction novels
Utopian novels
{{poli-novel-stub