Reconfigurarea distopiei prin „2084 – Sfârșitul lumii” de Bualem Sansal Cover Image

Reconfigurarea distopiei prin „2084 – Sfârșitul lumii” de Bualem Sansal
Reconfigurarea distopiei prin „2084 – Sfârșitul lumii” de Bualem Sansal

Author(s): Daniela Bogdan
Subject(s): Language and Literature Studies, Theology and Religion
Published by: Editura Casa Cărții de Știință
Keywords: distopy; Orwell; religious totalitarism; freedom; hybridity; the otherness

Summary/Abstract: Brave New World (Aldous Huxley), written in 1932, 1984 (George Orwell) issued in 1949, Fahrenheit 461 (Bradbury) from 1953 or 2084 (Bualem Sansal ) published in 2015. Apocalyptic science-fiction has always fed and enriched literature all over the world. If in the late 40's, demons came from the political field: Nazism, Stalinism, now it's time for religious fanaticism, played for radical Islam, to stir the minds of the writers. Relying on Orwell's book, whose fan Bualem Sansal declared himself, from the very beginning, the Algerian writer imagined a society in which salvation comes only from within. A book about the "other", a book of ideas in which Sansal uses the concept of hybridity and comments on Orient, making use of all Western stereotypes, in order to allert on the rise of globalism and religious totalitarianism.

  • Issue Year: 23/2016
  • Issue No: 1
  • Page Range: 171-179
  • Page Count: 9
  • Language: Romanian