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100 1 _aGottlieb, Erika.
245 1 0 _aDystopian fiction east and west
_h[electronic resource] :
_buniverse of terror and trial /
_cErika Gottlieb.
260 _aMontreal ;
_aIthaca, N.Y. :
_bMcGill-Queen's University Press,
_cc2001.
300 _aviii, 323 p. :
_bports.
500 _aIncludes index.
504 _aIncludes bibliographical references: p. [305]-318.
505 0 _aWhat 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.
533 _aElectronic reproduction.
_bPalo Alto, Calif. :
_cebrary,
_d2013.
_nAvailable via World Wide Web.
_nAccess may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries.
650 0 _aFiction
_y20th century
_xHistory and criticism.
650 0 _aScience fiction
_xHistory and criticism.
650 0 _aDystopias in literature.
650 0 _aTotalitarianism and literature.
655 7 _aElectronic books.
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856 4 0 _uhttp://site.ebrary.com/lib/kliuc/Doc?id=10132758
_zAn electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view
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