ABSTRACT
Dystopia maintains a complex relationship with the fears and hopes of its readers, transporting them into imaginary worlds to open up the distance needed for a critical look at their own world, whose problems it expresses through satire. Requiring a reading that situates it in its original context and recontextualizes the reader’s world, it necessarily conveys an ethical and political scope. It projects itself into the future to make the present appear as history, but also the future as unpredictable and, therefore, open. Sometimes confused with prophecy, it has rather the sense of a warning against what might happen if the tendencies it brings to light were not effectively fought.
