In the same year the czech writer Karel Čapek finished his play R.U.R. Yevgeny Zamyatin wrote his „We“ in 1920 and critized russian society and politics with his science-fiction book, which he had to publish outside of Russia. The dystopia as a novel was born during the industrial revolution. “ they have often been called anti-utopias because they seem a sad, last farewell to man’s age-old dream of a planned, ideal, and perfected society, a dream which appeared so noble in Plato’s Republic, More’s Utopia, Andreae’s Christianopolis, and Bellamy’s Looking Backward.” 1 Based on the present, Shteyngart shows us, where things might end up, if we don't intervene. It's in the nature of a dystopia to look at future developments in a pessimistic and sometimes satirical kind of way. Set in a not so far away future, he shows a possibiliy of things to come. Shteyngart has written a fictional story with a negative ending. With „Super Sad True Love Story“ the russian born author Gary Shteyngart has written a anti-utopia, a dystopia. Gary Shteyngart - Super Sad True Love Story
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