L’An deux mille quatre cent quarante – voyage imaginaire dans le temps selon le schéma canonique
The Year 2440: A Dream If Ever There Was One

Summary/Abstract: The aim of this paper is to comment the links between the work of Louis-Sébastien Mercier, The Year 2440: A Dream If Ever The WasOne, and narrative utopia model. The Mercier’s work is often consideredas inventive fiction which presents a new type of utopia focusedon the future, but a large number of traditional narrative strategiesis used by the author to show Paris in 25th century. The futurecivilization is built on the Enlightenment ideas but it remains stillattached by its culture to the 18th century. The Mercier’s work is inspiredby the utopism but in this fiction the reader finds more a fictionalrealization of dreams and philosophical thinking about human nature.

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