Theodor Hertzka
Autore di Freeland: A Social Anticipation
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- 21
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Still though there is a fair amount of extra things thrown in to keep it interesting. It starts off with a new nation being founded in africa and there is an amazing amount of detail regarding the travel through africa and the various countries and peoples encountered.
There's some romance thrown in, a bit of a war, it also jumps 20 years into the future so there are minor elements of sci-fi and it finishs off with a big parliamentary debate. Which is just as exciting as it sounds, but i also found it fairly interesting especially a theory about overpopulation which i hadn't thought of before.
Anyway, the various voices and view points in this coupled with the level of detail made it quite good despite its length.
Oh, one thing i found odd was the sexism. This new society gives women equal voting rights, they can work in any profession and they receive a stipend which keeps them financially independent even when married, so far so good. Then the author states that any woman who does a job other than nurse or teacher is socially frowned upon. The fact the author is sexist is not surprising given the time in which this was written, but it is odd that he could maintain his sexism even while creating an equal society under the law.
However the one major indefensible flaw in the story is its smugness, literally nothing goes wrong in the entire book, everything is far too easy, although that is not unexpected as this is essentially an advertising campaign.
So this is a long, economics based, utopian, philosophical, documentary kind of book. In fact fans of non-fiction might enjoy it more than others. Maybe i was just in the right kind of mood or something but i still liked it.… (altro)