The Poetics of Dreams in H. Franke’s Anti-Utopian Novel “Ypsilon Minus” Cover Image

Поэтика сновидений в антиутопическом романе Г. Франке «Игрек минус»
The Poetics of Dreams in H. Franke’s Anti-Utopian Novel “Ypsilon Minus”

Author(s): Evgeniya Selivanova
Subject(s): Literary Texts
Published by: Казанский (Приволжский) федеральный университет
Keywords: dream; dream chronotope; science fiction; anti-utopia; literary dream; functions of dreaming

Summary/Abstract: The dreams of the protagonist are the key episodes in H. Franke’s novel “Ypsilon Minus”. They form an integrated system and a separate storyline, which is graphically marked by italics. The research revealed some specific characteristics of a dream in the science-fiction anti-utopian novel of the second half of the 20th century, i.e., rationality, objectivity, and controllability. The position of the dream chronotope in the system of the novel’s spatiotemporal relations is characterized by the intersection of the three temporal layers without space change. The retrospective function of dreaming allows us to consider the process of dreaming as a representation of the traditional science-fiction’s motive of time travel.

  • Issue Year: 155/2013
  • Issue No: 2
  • Page Range: 216-222
  • Page Count: 7
  • Language: Russian