Eugenia: A Fictional Sketch of Future Customs by Eduardo Urzaiz,Sarah A. Buck Kachaluba,Aaron Dziubinskyj
By Eduardo Urzaiz,Sarah A. Buck Kachaluba,Aaron Dziubinskyj
Written years ahead of Yevgeny Zamyatin’s We and twelve years ahead of Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World, Eugenia recounts the tale of Ernesto, who at age twenty-three is chosen as a breeder. Celiana, his thirty-eight-year-old lover and an complete pupil, is deemed undeserving for replica. to deal with her emotions of guilt and hopelessness, she more and more turns to marijuana, and her scholarly productiveness declines. in the meantime Ernesto falls in love with a fellow breeder, a tender girl named Eugenia—but the lifestyles they eventually select isn't rather what the country had envisioned.
taking over very important demanding situations of contemporary society—population progress, reproductive habit and applied sciences, experimentation with gender roles, and alterations in family members dynamics—Eugenia is released right here in English for the 1st time. Sarah A. greenback Kachaluba and Aaron Dziubinskyj offer a serious gear aiding readers to appreciate the novel’s literary genesis and family tree in addition to its old context. bobbing up from its twentieth-century origins, but remarkably modern, Eugenia is a treasure of speculative fiction.
Winner, Jose Toribio Medina Award, Seminar at the Acquisition of Latin American Library Materials
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