Shishkina Svetlana Grigor'evna
Ivanovo State Chemical-Technological University
Abstract. The author considers the correlation of utopian and anti-utopian motives in Jack London's world-view. They believe that the American writer not indifferent to social-utopian prognostics modeled artistic socialist society as utopia realization ideal in future. In this article it is stated that anti-utopian, critical moods are also characteristic of Jack London. With this purpose the author analyzes his little-known novel The Scarlet Plague and suggests a new point of view on his classic work - the novel The Iron Heel.
Key words and phrases: утопия, ранняя литературная антиутопия, становление социально-прогностического жанра, специфические характеристики, utopia, early literary anti-utopia, social-prognostic genre formation, specific characteristics
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Berdyaev N. Krizis iskusstva. M.: SP "Interprint", 1990.