Published: 2021-10-12

Nikolai Fyodorov’s Story "One evening… in 2217" an Anti-Utopian Protest

Grzegorz Ojcewicz Logo ORCID

Abstract

One evening… in 2217, a short story by Nikolai Fyodorov, was published in 1906. In the history of the Russian literature, this story has the status of a pioneering anti-utopian text. From this point of view, it is interesting to examine the text as a literary experiment in which the author presents to his readers his vision of a new world seen from the distance of three-hundred-years. What does the author find especially worrying about a future world in which the values of the present no longer exist? Who is the author rebelling against and why? Why does his text reference Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy? What made his story a source of inspiration for Yevgeny Zamyatin’s We? Why does Fyodorov continue to inspire Russian anti-utopian writers of the 20th and 21st century who use this genre to voice their opinions on topical and socially significant issues?

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Ojcewicz, G. (2021). Nikolai Fyodorov’s Story "One evening… in 2217" an Anti-Utopian Protest. Rusycystyczne Studia Literaturoznawcze, 31, 1–19. https://doi.org/10.31261/RSL.2021.31.06

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Vol. 31 (2021)
Published: 2021-12-22


ISSN: 0208-5038
eISSN: 2353-9674
Ikona DOI 10.31261/RSL

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Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Śląskiego | University of Silesia Press

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