universe of terror and trial Gottlieb, Erika. creator ebrary, Inc text bibliography Electronic books. quc Montreal Ithaca, N.Y McGill-Queen's University Press c2001 2001 monographic eng

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viii, 323 p. : ports. 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, D�ery, Fuks, Hlasko, �Ork�eny, 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, D�ery'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. Erika Gottlieb. Includes index. Includes bibliographical references: p. [305]-318. Electronic reproduction. Palo Alto, Calif. : ebrary, 2013. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries. Fiction 20th century History and criticism Science fiction History and criticism Dystopias in literature Totalitarianism and literature PN56.D94 G68 2001eb 809.3/9372 http://site.ebrary.com/lib/rucke/Doc?id=10132758 http://site.ebrary.com/lib/rucke/Doc?id=10132758 CaPaEBR 021009 ebr10132758