Darko Suvin Bücher

Das Zentralthema der Anthologie »Andere Welten, andere Meere« ist die Utopie: ein ethisches und philosophisches Konzept innerhalb der Science-Fiction-Traditionen, das in englischen und amerikanischen Werken kaum vertreten ist. Der Herausgeber, Prof. Dr. Darko Suvin, ist 1930 in Zagreb geboren und hat sich inzwischen nicht nur in seinem Heimatland, sondern auch in Amerika und Kanada als Literaturwissenschaftier, Kritiker und Essayist einen Namen gemacht. Er ist zugleich Experte auf zwei verschiedenen Gebieten der Literatur - zeitgenössisches Theater und wissenschaftlich-utopische Literatur - und hat in dieser Eigenschaft als Dozent an den Universitäten von Zagreb, Massachusetts und Indiana gelehrt.

This major two-volume collection presents Darko Suvin's critical meditations on science fiction and utopia from the late 1960s through the early years of the new millennium.

Darko Suvin presents a critical analysis of capitalism through eleven essays, arguing that current financial turmoil signals a transition to a new regime of accumulation. He highlights the societal chaos marked by economic instability, social unrest, and systemic failures in education and security. Emphasizing the need for universal guaranteed income and improved public services, Suvin advocates for reallocating funds from banks and military expenditures to support these initiatives. His thought-provoking commentary challenges prejudices against socialist ideas, offering an alternative perspective for contemporary readers.

Focusing on critical reflections, this comprehensive two-volume collection showcases Darko Suvin's insights into science fiction and utopia spanning from the late 1960s to the early 2000s. It excludes his key monographs, emphasizing his evolving thoughts and analyses on the genre's relationship with societal and cultural themes over several decades.

Suvin's 'X-Ray' of Socialist Yugoslavia offers an indispensable overview of a unique and often overlooked twentieth-century socialism

This volume incorporates Darko Suvin’s thinking on utopian horizons in fiction and on eutopian and dystopian readings of historical reality since the 1970s. While the focus is on the United States and the United Kingdom, the essays also draw on French, German and Russian sources. The book is composed of eighteen chapters, including four sets of poems. The chapters include heretic reflections on utopian fiction, science fiction and utopian studies, explorations of dystopias, and epistemological examinations of political standpoint. Throughout, plebeian history is the stance from which all the author’s value judgements are made. The essays and poems engage with the empirical world and identify areas of hope. In a dark dystopian time, they reaffirm eutopia, the radically better place to be striven for in every here and now.