Abstract

The Year 2440: A Dream If Ever There Was One

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.

Details

Title
L’An deux mille quatre cent quarante – voyage imaginaire dans le temps selon le schéma canonique
Author
Świtlik, Stanisław
Pages
103-124
Section
varia
Publication year
2023
Publication date
2023
Publisher
Jagiellonian University-Jagiellonian University Press
ISSN
23004681
e-ISSN
23538953
Source type
Scholarly Journal
Language of publication
French
ProQuest document ID
2894349677
Copyright
© 2023. This work is published under https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ (the “License”). Notwithstanding the ProQuest Terms and Conditions, you may use this content in accordance with the terms of the License.