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Gottlieb juxtaposes the Western dystopian genre with Eastern and Central European versions, introducing a selection of works from Russia, Poland, Hungary, and Czechoslovakia. She demonstrates that authors who write about and under totalitarian dictatorship find the worst of all possible worlds not in a hypothetical future but in the historical reality of the writer's present or recent past. Against such a background the writer assumes the role of witness, protesting against a nightmare world that is but should not be. She introduces the works of Victor Serge, Vassily Grossmam, Alexander Zinoviev, Tibor Dery, Arthur Koestler, Vaclav Havel, and Istvan Klima, as well as a host of others, all well-known in their own countries, presenting them within a framework established through an original and comprehensive exploration of the patterns underlying the more familiar Western works of dystopian fiction.

82-313.2 --- Utopische roman --- 82-313.2 Utopische roman --- Dystopias in literature. --- Fiction --- Science fiction --- Totalitarianism and literature. --- History and criticism. --- Dystopias in literature --- Totalitarianism and literature --- Literature and totalitarianism --- History and criticism

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Becoming My Mother's Daughter: A Story of Survival and Renewal tells the story of three generations of a Jewish Hungarian family whose fate has been inextricably bound up with the turbulent history of Europe, from the First World War through the Holocaust and the communist takeover after World War II, to the family's dramatic escape and emmigration to Canada. The emotional centre and narrative voice of the story belong to Eva, an artist, dreamer, and writer trying to work through her complex and deep relationship with her mother, whose portrait she cannot paint until she completes h

Meres et filles --- Juifs Extermination (1939-1945) --- Holocaust survivors --- Mothers and daughters --- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) --- Daughters and mothers --- Daughters --- Girls --- Mother and child --- Survivors, Holocaust --- Victims --- Gottlieb (famille) --- Gottlieb, Erika --- Gottlieb, Erika. --- Gottlieb family. --- Famille. --- Family. --- Budapest (Hungary) --- Budimpešta (Hungary) --- Budapesht (Hungary) --- Voudapestē (Hungary) --- Buda (Hungary) --- Pest (Hungary) --- Óbuda (Hungary)