[pt] Este trabalho tem como objetivo central analisar comparativamente três dos principais romances distópicos escritos na primeira metade do século XX: We (1924) de Yevgeny Zamyatin, Brave New World (1932) escrito por Aldous Huxley e 1984 (1949) escrito pelo romancista e jornalista inglês George Orwell. Não se trata aqui de pensar apenas em como essas obras foram moldadas por um ou outro conjunto de pressões históricas, mas sim procurar refletir especialmente se e como essas obras também podem possuir uma dimensão propositiva comum a todas elas. Elabora-se, a partir desse esforço, a categoria de estética do prognóstico, no interior do próprio pensamento crítico e ensaístico de Aldous Huxley. Partindo da obra de Huxley e posterioremente testando a força dessa categoria de estética do prognóstico frente aos dois outros romances, fomos capazes de perceber como a ficção opera a construção de uma encenação que pretende ser mais do que mera encenação. Pretende ser ela mesma uma espécie de realismo do futuro, chamado por nós de realismo distópico. Mas esse realismo não encontra o ponto máximo de sua representação da realidade na literatura ao profetizar (prognosticar) os meios pelos quais a sociedade do futuro irá se desenvolver, mas sim nas tópicas centrais à construção de seus protagonistas: o amor e a morte. / [en] This work is mainly aimed at comparing three of the main dystopian novels written in the first half of the twentieth century: We (1924) by Yevgeny Zamyatin, Brave New World (1932) written by Aldous Huxley and 1984 (1949) written by the english novelist and journalist George Orwell. We re not only interested to think of how these works were shaped by either set of historical pressures, but rather trying to reflect especially if and how these works may also have a common propositional dimension to all of them. Draws up from that effort, the category of the aesthetic of prognosis, built inside the critical and essayistic thought of Aldous Huxley himself. Starting from the work of Huxley and then testing the strength of this category of aesthetic of prognosis compared to the other two novels, we were able to understand how fiction works to build a staging that aims to be more than mere acting. Want to be itself a kind of realism of the future, called by us the dystopian realism. But this realism did not find the peak of its representation of reality in literature prophesying (predicting) the means by which the society of the future will develop, but on the construction of the central protagonists issues: love and death.

Tom Wolfe was a founding father of New Journalism, revolutionizing journalistic reporting by introducing literary tools of storytelling. The literary influence on New Journalism is well-covered by journalism scholars, but Wolfe was also a fiction writer, and as such he actively tried to rally his generation of fiction writers behind him for a New Social Novel, more grounded in reality and reporting. His post-postmodern novels also amalgamate journalism and literature, but how and to what extent journalism influenced his fiction writing is a story yet untold.  Wolfe provided a normative blueprint for how to achieve verisimilitude in fiction, in his literary manifesto: “Stalking the Billion-Footed Beast”. At about the same time, he started writing the novel A Man in Full. Using A Man in Full as an application of his ideas of the ideal novel, this thesis investigates how Wolfe constructed the reality effect in his fiction and foregrounds the origins of Tom Wolfe’s literary voice, focusing on onomatopoetic language, statuspheric minutiae, expressive punctuation, and Wolfe’s characteristic wake-the-dead prose style. I argue that Wolfe did reinvent verisimilitude in literary realism, but not in the way that he intended, through reporting and status details, but rather through language.

My aim with this essay is to analyse how the theme of sexuality and love in two dystopian novels – We  (1924),  by Yevgeny Zamyatin and Kallocain  (1940), by Karin Boye – relate to “the modern project”, a term I use to identify a cluster of important ideas that profoundly impacted society in the first decades of the 20th century. My analysis is based on a theoretical point of view claiming that dystopian novels present a critical perspective on society, and that they deal with issues, problems and values specific to the period in which they were written. Using a comparative method, where “the modern project” works asan “Ansatzpunkt”, I explore a variety of texts studying the theme of love and sexualityin We  and Kallocain  from different perspectives. I further discuss how both novels criticize societies where some of the ideas from “the modern project” are realized in unexpected ways: the “bourgeois family” is gone and the state performs some of its duties, sexuality is reduced to biological needs and reproduction, and love relationships are seen as egotistical and irrational. Even though these societies are trying hard, they can’t stop their citizens from using love and sexuality as a means to connect to one another and build a resistance. My conclusion is that both Zamyatin and Boye most likely were inspired by the writings of Sigmund Freud, who at that time was highly influential. In this light their novels can beinterpreted as presenting the human libido (We) and insights gained through psychoanalysis (Kallocain) as defences against collectivistic totalitarian states.

The aim of this essay is to provide an answer to the question "What is the Meaning of Meaningless sex in Dystopia?". It will show that meaningful concepts such as sexual satisfaction, pleassure, passion, love, bonding, procreation and family are handled as threats in dystopian societies described in well-known novels as We, Brave New World and Nineteen Eighty-Four . It will explain how the conflict between the collective and the individual influences peoples' sexuality. It will also show how leading powers in the three dystopian societies use different methods to remove the significanse and functions of sex. It will suggest meaningless sex is a means to control the masses in a collective and that meaningful sex is an act of rebelion against the state. / .

In my dissertation Theory of Petrified Worlds on the Example of Anti-Utopian and Dystopian Literature, I deal with anti-utopian and dystopian literature, which has been largely neglected by Czech scholarship. After the introduction to the issue I deal with the detailed analysis of the novel We by Yevgeny Zamyatin, after which I devote my attention to the theoretical definition of terms, including the historical mapping of previous research. I focus on the historical context of the emergence of the genres, including a deeper analysis of its beginnings, i.e. the development of utopian literature from Plato to William Morris and Herbert George Wells, and in detail describe the emergence of anti-utopian literature primarily as an opposition to utopian tendencies and its evolution into dystopia. A major part of the work deals with a specific semiotic analysis of the characteristic and constitutive features of the genres of anti-utopian and dystopian literature of the 20th and 21st centuries. This includes, among other things, the closed and petrified world of the novels, which gave the name to the presented theory, the strict division of society, the existence of newspeak, the characteristics of the main and secondary characters, as well as the social and political context of the analysed works. In...