Utopia: A Satire of Conciliation in a Perverse World

Abstract

This essay seeks to investigate the possibility of defining utopia as a literary genre. It is certainly a relevant question, which has great philosophical, literary, aesthetic, and historical interest. The inquiry as to whether utopia does indeed constitute - or not - an autonomous literary genre has existed since the founding work of Thomas More was published half a millennium ago. It is precisely about this specific work, as it is the beginning and therefore the best example of this case, that I will develop this reflection. Despite the significant number of studies available on the literary nature of utopia, some of the answers obtained are limited to the composition of a typology which, although useful, give the works a static aspect, removing from them the lively dialectic that composes them.