변증법적 유토피아 서사의 교훈 - 어슐러 K. 르귄의 『빼앗긴 자들』(1975)을 중심으로

Ursula K. Le Guin’s The Possessed, published in the 20th century, is a masterpiece of Utopia SF. The novel critically inherits the Western Utopian genre and reveals the ambivalent aspects of Utopia. The Possessed poses an important question regarding how to diagnose and inherit the historical present of utopia when there is no social discussion about utopia. Utopia is both a place and a situation. Utopia is not a static ideal place but a dynamic byproduct of historical situations. This paper reads The Possessed as a critical utopia, discussing SF methodology of world reduction in existential and structural levels of the utopia. In conclusion, this paper argues that the utopian impulse of The Possessed is not an obsolete antiquity of history, but a common good that must be restored and inherited.