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Looking Backward

De : Edward Bellamy
Lu par : Edward Lewis
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 The hero is anyone who has ever longed for escape to a better life. The time is tomorrow. The place is a Utopian America. This is the backdrop for Edward Bellamy's prophetic novel about a young Boston gentleman who is mysteriously transported from the nineteenth to the twenty-first century, from a world of war and want to a world of peace and plenty. Translated into more than twenty languages, and the most widely read novel of its time, Looking Backward is more than a brilliant visionary's view of the future. It is a blueprint of the "perfect society," a guidebook that stimulated some of the prominent thinkers of our age. John Dewey, Charles Beard, and Edward Weeks, in separate surveys conducted in 1935, listed Edward Bellamy's novel as the most influential work written by an American in the preceding fifty years.(P)2000 Blackstone Audiobooks Classiques Science-fiction
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    This short yet somewhat long-winded novel, written in 1888, is awkwardly titled since it deals with the future and not the past. In fact, its main protagonist, Julian West, falls asleep one night in 1887 and wakes up only in 2000, physically unaltered. This, actually, is a quite transparent device for the author to voice his views on the ideal social and economic system. Clearly, he is not very much concerned with technical progress nor with the psychology of his characters. Both are alluded to but not developed.

    It is interesting to observe that he anticipates many elements that now exist, including:

    • a system analogous to Amazon’s that delivers a wide variety of goods to individual homes in record time (though it functions without the Internet … and is state-owned);
    • live radio (through the telephone);
    • the use of electricity rather than of coal, gas or wood for heating and lighting;
    • universal health insurance;
    • generalized education (compulsory in fact till 21 years of age);
    • the World Trade Organization;
    • a primitive notion of credit cards and of a cashless economy;
    • a non-democratic meritocracy comparable to what allegedly exists today in Mainland China.

    Though the social views presented were tremendously progressive for their days, countries such as India are described in 2000 to still be “backwards” and in need of patronage from North America and Europe. While educated, women are largely kept to a very Victorian role of being supportive and pleasant. They are assigned to “lighter work” and secondary decision-making positions. Nothing is said of African Americans.

    In the audio version, the narrator does an adequate job, though in no way superlative.

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