TY - JOUR
TI - The Year 2440: A Dream If Ever There Was One
AU - Świtlik, Stanisław
TI - The Year 2440: A Dream If Ever There Was One
AB - The aim of this paper is to comment the links between the work of Louis-Sébastien Mercier, The Year 2440: A Dream If Ever The Was One, and narrative utopia model. The Mercier’s work is often considered as inventive fiction which presents a new type of utopia focused on the future, but a large number of traditional narrative strategies is used by the author to show Paris in 25th century. The future civilization is built on the Enlightenment ideas but it remains still attached by its culture to the 18th century. The Mercier’s work is inspired by the utopism but in this fiction the reader finds more a fictional realization of dreams and philosophical thinking about human nature.
VL - 2023
IS - Numéro 35
PY - 2023
SN - 2300-4681
C1 - 2353-8953
SP - 103
EP - 124
DO - 10.4467/23538953CE.23.026.18476
UR - https://ejournals.eu/en/journal/cahiers-erta/article/lan-deux-mille-quatre-cent-quarante-voyage-imaginaire-dans-le-temps-selon-le-schema-canonique
KW - Louis-Sébastien Mercier
KW - The Year 2044: A Dream If Ever There Was One
KW - imaginary journey
KW - narrative utopia
KW - utopism