{"product_id":"eugenia-5","title":"Eugenia: A Fictional Sketch Of Future Customs","description":"\u003cdiv\u003eA little-known gem of utopian\/dystopian fiction published in 1919 tells\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ethe story of a eugenically engineered society of the future.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIt is the year 2218. In \"Villautopia,\" the capital of a Central American nation, the\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003estate selects young, biologically desirable citizens to act as breeders. Embryos\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eare implanted in males to increase a flagging population rate, and the offspring\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eare raised in state facilities until old enough to choose their own, nonnuclear\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003efamilies. Sterilization of children with mental or physical abnormalities further\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eensures the purity of the gene pool.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWritten two years before Yevgeny Zamyatin's \u003ci\u003eWe\u003c\/i\u003e and twelve years before\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAldous Huxley's \u003ci\u003eBrave New World\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eEugenia\u003c\/i\u003e recounts the story of Ernesto, who at age twenty-three is selected as a breeder. Celiana, his thirty-eight-year-old lover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eand an accomplished scholar, is deemed unfit for reproduction. To cope with\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eher feelings of guilt and hopelessness, she increasingly turns to marijuana, and\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eher scholarly productivity declines. Meanwhile Ernesto falls in love with a fellow\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ebreeder, a young woman named Eugenia—but the life they ultimately choose is\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003enot quite what the state had envisioned.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTaking up important challenges of modern society—population growth,\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ereproductive behavior and technologies, experimentation with gender roles,\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eand changes in family dynamics—\u003ci\u003eEugenia\u003c\/i\u003e is published here in English for the\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003efirst time. Sarah A. Buck Kachaluba and Aaron Dziubinskyj provide a critical\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eapparatus helping readers to understand the novel's literary genesis and genealogy\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eas well as its historical context. Arising from its twentieth-century origins, yet\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eremarkably contemporary, \u003ci\u003eEugenia\u003c\/i\u003e is a treasure of speculative fiction.\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"None","offers":[{"title":"Couverture souple","offer_id":46426103808210,"sku":"9780299306847","price":35.5,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0655\/8980\/5233\/files\/1_d5af63ec-1dd3-4b51-be05-7f8f27bef2f1.jpg?v=1763108074","url":"https:\/\/www.indigo.ca\/fr\/products\/eugenia-5","provider":"Indigo","version":"1.0","type":"link"}