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- Title
A Wandering Ship in Utopian Space: 'Carte blanche' by Sylvie Lainé.
- Authors
Dolidon, Annabelle
- Abstract
This article shows how the French science-fiction short story 'Carte blanche' interrogates individual freedom in the utopian community of a spaceship wandering through space. Although the community chose to secede from Earth to live on this ship according to the motto 'Le changement, c'est la vie', it questions how individuals can partake of a social ideal that promotes change but prohibits any amending of the underlining system and argues that characters in the story have deliberately embraced a social order that limits their autonomy and rejects history in order to enjoy, in return, the illusion of eternal youth.
- Subjects
CARTE blanche (Short story); UTOPIAS in literature; LIBERTY; SOCIAL order; SCIENCE fiction; UTOPIAS
- Publication
Nottingham French Studies, 2019, Vol 58, Issue 1, p14
- ISSN
0029-4586
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.3366/nfs.2019.0233