L'Utopie
- Langue:
- anglais
- Traduction:
- Ralph Robynson
- État:
- Œuvre complète
- Paternité:
- Écrite par l'auteur
- État du texte:
- Aucun bruit de numérisation détecté (mesure automatique sur tout le texte, non vérifiée à la main)
- Étendue:
- ~47 600 mots · 226 passages
Citer cette œuvre
- APAThomas More. (n.d.). Utopia [L'Utopie] (Ralph Robynson, Trans.). Digital reproduction: SigPhi. https://sigphiai.com/fr/works/thomas-more/utopia
- MLAThomas More. Utopia [L'Utopie]. Translated by Ralph Robynson. Digital reproduction, SigPhi, https://sigphiai.com/fr/works/thomas-more/utopia.
- ChicagoThomas More. Utopia [L'Utopie]. Translated by Ralph Robynson. Digital reproduction, SigPhi. https://sigphiai.com/fr/works/thomas-more/utopia.
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De quoi il s'agit
Le récit d'un voyageur sur une île sans propriété privée, sans argent et sans chômage, où tous travaillent six heures et mangent la même chose — mi-rêve politique, mi-satire acérée de l'Angleterre de More.
Contexte et histoire
Publié en latin à Louvain en 1516, œuvre d'un humaniste qui était à la fois l'ami d'Érasme et un homme d'État au service d'Henri VIII — le roi même qui le ferait décapiter dix-neuf ans plus tard pour avoir refusé de le reconnaître chef de l'Église. Le nom qu'il forgea, du grec « lieu qui n'est nulle part », a nommé un genre entier. On a toujours débattu de ce qu'en croyait More : le livre propose la communauté des biens et la regarde avec ironie à la fois, et cette ambiguïté est une part de ce qui le maintient vivant.
Contexte éditorial, non une source citable : contrairement aux passages de l'œuvre, ces données ne peuvent pas être vérifiées dans le corpus.
when they went by water, and waggons when they travelled over land: he sent with them a very faithful guide, who was to introduce and recommend them to such other princes as they had a mind to see: and after many days’ journey, they came to towns, and cities, and to commonwealths, that were both happily governed and well peopled. Under the equator, and as far on both sides of it as the sun moves, there lay vast deserts that were parched with the perpetual heat of the sun; the soil was withered, all things looked dismally, and all places were either quite uninhabited, or abounded with wild beasts and serpents, and some few men, that were neither less wild nor less cruel than the beasts themselves. But, as they went farther, a new scene opened, all things grew milder, the air less burning, the soil more verdant, and even the beasts were less wild: and, at last, there were nations, towns, and cities, that had not only mutual commerce among themselves and with their neighbours, but traded, both by sea and land, to very remote countries. There they found the conveniencies of seeing many countries on all hands, for no ship went any voyage into which he and his companions were not very welcome. The first vessels that they saw were flat-bottomed, their sails were made of reeds and wicker, woven close together, only some were of leather; but, afterwards, they found ships made with round keels and canvas sails, and in all respects like our ships, and the seamen understood both astronomy and navigation. He got wonderfully into their favour by showing them the use of the needle, of which till then they were utterly ignorant.…