Chronotopes et paysages utopiques
Chronotopes and Utopian Landscape

Summary/Abstract: As a fictional world, Utopia is a chronotope with its own landscape and history. Following Plato’s contraposition of Athens and Atlantis, Thomas More has set the bases for the polar structure of modern utopias: to the here and now he opposes an elsewhere and a wishful future. Between this two poles he operates a sort of “electrolysis”, which distributes to our world the negative features and to the other world the positive features of a general neutral image of the world. (Antiutopias will proceed to the reverse distribution). The consequence is that the imaginary landscapes of Europe and Utopia are built in the mirror: the first is the negative of the second and the second the positive of the first.

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