PROCEEDINGS OF 4TH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON EDUCATION, LANGUAGE, ART AND INTERCULTURAL COMMUNICATION (ICELAIC 2017).
ATLANTIS PRESS.
Vol. 64.
2016.
P. 97-103
The article offers an analysis of the social and existential experience represented in "Woman on the Edge of Time" by Marge Piercy. In contrast with classical utopias, this novel emphasizes a figure of a caring person who understands others and resists the mechanisms of total control over nature and human emotions. The development of the subject is revealed as a risky task of travelling beyond the ready-made identities and generally recognized concepts (first of all, binary opposites "normal" / "pathological") in search of authentic social relations.