03242oam 2200589 a 450 991045015400332120201016235909.00-7735-6918-9(CKB)1000000000244887(OCoLC)123402024(CaPaEBR)ebrary10119862(SSID)ssj0000278870(PQKBManifestationID)11211204(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000278870(PQKBWorkID)10260506(PQKB)10852018(MiAaPQ)EBC3330577(CaPaEBR)400108(CaBNvSL)gtp00521388 (MiAaPQ)EBC3243514(EXLCZ)99100000000024488720001026d2001 uy 0engurcn|||||||||txtccrDystopian fiction east and west[electronic resource] universe of terror and trial /Erika GottliebMontreal, Que. McGill-Queen's University Press20011 online resource (334 p.) Includes index.0-7735-2179-8 Includes bibliographical references (p. [305]-318) and index.What is justice? The answers of utopia, tragedy, and dystopia -- Nineteenth-century precursors of the dystopian vision -- The dictator behind the mask : Zamiatin's We, Huxley's Brave new world, and Orwell's Ninteenth eighty-four -- Dictatorship without a mask : Bradbury's Fahrenheit 451, Vonnegut's Player piano, and Atwood's The handmaid's tale -- The writer on trial: socialist realism and the exile of speculative fiction -- The dystopia of revolutionary justice : Serge's Conquered city, Zazubrin's "The chip," and Rodionov's Chocolate -- The legalization of terror: Platonov's The foundation pit, Ribakov's Children of the Arbat, and Koestler's Darkness at noon -- Terror in war, terror in peace: Grossman's Life and fate, Tertz Sinyavski's The trial begins, and Daniel's This is Moscow speaking -- Collective paranoia: the persecutor and the persecuted: Andzrejewski, Déry, Fuks, Hlasko, Örkény, Vaculik, and Mrozek -- Kafka's ghost: The trial as theatre: Klima's The castle, Karvas's The big wig, and Havel''s Memorandum -- From terror to entropy : the downward spiral: Konwicki's A minor apocalypse, Déry's Mr G.A. in X and Zinoviev's The radiant future -- Speculative fiction returns from exile : Dystopian vision with a sneer: Voinovich's Moscow 2042, Aksyonov's The island of Crimea, Dalos's 1985, and Moldova's Hitler in Hungary -- Dystopia East and West: conclusion.Fiction20th centuryHistory and criticismScience fictionHistory and criticismDystopias in literatureTotalitarianism and literatureElectronic books.FictionHistory and criticism.Science fictionHistory and criticism.Dystopias in literature.Totalitarianism and literature.809.3/9372Gottlieb Erika779938MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910450154003321Dystopian Fiction East and West1675657UNINA