On Antiutopianism in Pragmatics and Narrative

DARKO R. SUVIN is a scholar, critic, and poet, born 1930 in Zagreb, Yugoslavia, is Professor Emeritus of McGill University and Fellow of The Royal Society of Canada. He was co-editor of Science-Fiction Studies, editor of Literary Research/Recherche littéraire, and visiting professor at ten universities. He has won various awards for scholarship and prizes for poetry, was Award Fellow of Killam Foundation and Humboldt Foundation. He has published thirty-five book titles, edited fourteen volumes, and written hundreds of articles on literature and dramaturgy, culture, utopian and science fiction, political epistemology and communism; also three volumes of poetry. The latest book titles are Communism, Poetry: Communicating Vessels (2020); Parables of Freedom and Narrative Logics: Positions and Presuppositions in Science Fiction and Utopianism, 2 vols. (2021); Disputing the Deluge: 21st Century Writings on Utopia, Narration, Horizons of Survival (2022); and Bijasmo nečija budućnost (2022) [We Were Somebody’s Future, verse in Croatoserbian]. Vita and essays are accessible at www.darkosuvin.com; papers to read and download at https://independent.academia.edu/DarkoSuvin/Papers.