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October 30, 2019
Dystopian novels are very intriguing, as the writers touch on what would happen should something go haywire and the consequences lasts for decades.
Miasto światłości (or in English, The City of Light) is a novel written by Mieczysław Smolarski in 1924. This novel combines two genres: dystopia and catastrophism. It tells what entails after the end of the world by two natural disasters; the first being all civilization destroyed and the second having the whole planet Earth vanquished because of what her own inhabitants did to her. This Polish literary work warns against imperialism and barbarism as well as uncontrolled technological advancement without much supervision.
While this novel has a riveting plot, its spotlight was taken over by Aldous Huxley’s ‘Brave New World’, published in 1932. Smolarski claimed that Huxley plagiarised his novel, but the infringement case was not properly pursued until 1982.
Miasto światłości (or in English, The City of Light) is a novel written by Mieczysław Smolarski in 1924. This novel combines two genres: dystopia and catastrophism. It tells what entails after the end of the world by two natural disasters; the first being all civilization destroyed and the second having the whole planet Earth vanquished because of what her own inhabitants did to her. This Polish literary work warns against imperialism and barbarism as well as uncontrolled technological advancement without much supervision.
While this novel has a riveting plot, its spotlight was taken over by Aldous Huxley’s ‘Brave New World’, published in 1932. Smolarski claimed that Huxley plagiarised his novel, but the infringement case was not properly pursued until 1982.
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