Conserveries Mémorielles (Jun 2018)
Passé en utopie
Abstract
Different scholars have affirmed the inadequacy of utopia and history. The French literary utopias of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries address the past of the utopian place : chaotic prehistory, origins of the system of government, later failures ... If time seems to have ceased there, they nevertheless find root in the past. Why, in an island guardian of prosperity and in a narrative that justifies the ideal, are historical vibrations necessary? What are they witnessing? Has nostalgia an influence? In these texts, the implementation of the society is the result of an more or less long historical process. Time has therefore a highly political nature.
