СИРАНО ДЕ БЕРЖЕРАК КАК ПРЕДШЕСТВЕННИК НАУЧНО-ФАНТАСТИЧЕСКОЙ ПРОЗЫ

Abstract

The article considers the genre of Cyranoʼs novel «Another world», widely discussed in both domestic and foreign literary studies. It explores the elements of science fiction in contrast to those of the miraculous, as they appear in the 17th-century literature, and identifies the features of utopianism and the peculiarities of scientific forecasting in the work. Both parts of «Another world» are examined in their similarities and differences from one another, as well as combination of universalism and topical issues of the novel with narrative irony and burlesque.