莫里斯《无处传来的消息》和品钦《逆日而行》中的富豪反乌托邦和工人乌托邦

Q2 Arts and Humanities

Orbit (Cambridge) Pub Date : 2017-08-30 DOI:10.16995/ORBIT.219

F. Palmeri

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Pynchon的《反对这一天》（2006）聚焦于芝加哥哥伦比亚博览会（1893）后四分之一世纪业主和工人之间的对立。Pynchon描绘了一个现有的财阀反乌托邦，在这个反乌托邦中，数百万人几乎无法生存，工会组织者被折磨和杀害——马修·约瑟夫森的《强盗男爵》（1934）提供了一个详细的先例。然而，品钦也想象了许多乌托邦式的网站，这些网站与威廉·莫里斯的乌托邦式《无处新闻》（1891）有着强烈的相似之处。在这两部作品中，所有者和工人之间的不平等在国家组织之外得到了纠正；无政府主义和社会主义思想是相辅相成的，而不是对立的；旅行到未来或在反乌托邦的当下之外打开了对未来的替代愿景。

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Plutocratic Dystopia and Workers’ Utopias in Morris’s News from Nowhere and Pynchon’s Against the Day

Pynchon’s Against the Day (2006) focuses on the opposition between owners and workers in the quarter century after the Chicago Columbian Exposition (1893). Pynchon depicts an existing plutocratic dystopia in which millions barely subsist and union organizers are tortured and killed—a world of which Matthew Josephson’s The Robber Barons (1934) provides a detailed antecedent account. However, Pynchon also imagines numerous utopian sites that show strong parallels with William Morris’s utopian News from Nowhere (1891). In both works, inequality between owners and workers is corrected outside state organizations; anarchist and socialist thought prove to be complementary, not opposed; and travel to the future or outside the dystopian present opens up alternate visions of the future.

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Orbit (Cambridge) Arts and Humanities-Literature and Literary Theory

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