The underground man as Big Brother: Dostoevsky's and Orwell's anti-utopia.: An article from: Utopian Studies

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From the supplier: George Orwell may not have been directly influenced by Fyodor Dostoyevsky's writing, but Orwell's work is linked to Dostoyevsky's by way of the dystopian novel of Yevgeny Zamyatin, "We." Dostoyevsky's writings may be called the precursor of the three great dystopias of the 20th century, i.e., Zamyatin's "We," Orwell's "1984" and Aldous Huxley's "Brave New World." Orwell's book, however, focuses on the authoritarian corruption of a utopia, while the others emphasize the dystopian result of achieving a scientific utopia.

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Title: The underground man as Big Brother: Dostoevsky's and Orwell's anti-utopia.
Author: Adrian Wanner
Publication:Utopian Studies (Refereed)
Date: January 1, 1997
Publisher: Society for Utopian Studies
Volume: v8 Issue: n1 Page: p77(12)

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