A platform for research: civil engineering, architecture and urbanism
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The essay explores the role played by anarchist thinking on Zola's utopian city in Travail (1901). While Zola did not consider anarchism to be a viable political ideology for the ideal city portrayed in the novel, he found it to be a revelatory model for its artistic culture. Drawing from anarchist agitator Peter Kropotkin, Zola conceived of the residential area as the antithesis of the city center. This essay will examine the contradictory facets in this piece of early twentieth-century utopian fiction, and, through this lens, will consider the more salient tensions in modernist utopias as a whole.
The essay explores the role played by anarchist thinking on Zola's utopian city in Travail (1901). While Zola did not consider anarchism to be a viable political ideology for the ideal city portrayed in the novel, he found it to be a revelatory model for its artistic culture. Drawing from anarchist agitator Peter Kropotkin, Zola conceived of the residential area as the antithesis of the city center. This essay will examine the contradictory facets in this piece of early twentieth-century utopian fiction, and, through this lens, will consider the more salient tensions in modernist utopias as a whole.
Émile Zola's Volatile Utopia
Ghoche, Ralph (author)
Journal of Architectural Education ; 67 ; 32-38
2013-03-07
7 pages
Article (Journal)
Electronic Resource
English
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