A work of fiction that shows the extinction of human work labour and life by a rebellion of the machines. 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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