Dans les méandres de la littérature dystopique : le pouvoir de l’art contre l’art du pouvoir

• Ayed, Kawthar ^[1]
  1. [1] Tunis University

     Tunis University

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• Localización: L'art de vivre, de survivre, de revivre. Approches littéraires: 50e anniversaire des études romanes à l’Université de Łódź / coord. por Magdalena Kozluk, Anita Staron, 2022, ISBN 978-83-8220-877-1, págs. 225-239
• Idioma: francés
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  • In the Twists and Turns of Dystopian Fiction: the Power of Art "versus" the Art of Power
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  • In this paper, the author examines the distortion of the past and the perversion of art in works of speculative dystopian fiction. Without history, there is no longer a past or a future; only the present persists as a perpetual replication of the same structures. In 1984, everything is constantly rewritten in minute detail. In Globalia, the system wages a fierce war against history. Art is either recuperated or condemned to burn at the stake of state power (Fahrenheit 451). However, discovering art objects from past times and reading literary works signal a change of course which raises conscience and even leads to acts of resistance. In dystopian speculative literature, resistance acquires a symbolic dimension: Despite reigning darkness, there seems to appear a gleam of hope thanks to art and to literature.