Negative Utopia in Central Europe
Negative Utopia in Central Europe

Kazohinia and the Dystopian Political Climate of the 1930s

Author(s): Zsolt Czigányik
Subject(s): Political Sciences
Published by: Central European University Press
Keywords: utopia and dystopia;political ideology;symbolism;nationalism;fascism;anarchism;
Summary/Abstract: There is a curious book that keeps causing discomfort to its readers: A Voyage to Kazohinia, written in or around 1935 and first published in1941, is often considered the single most important book of the Hungarian utopian (and dystopian) tradition. As part of a larger project of mapping Hungarian utopianism from a social and political perspective, this chapter analyzes this book of central importance by displaying its textual and structural parallels with contemporary political ideologies, especially nationalism, fascism, and anarchism.

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