An edition of Flatland (1884)

Planilandia

Una novela de muchas dimensiones

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An edition of Flatland (1884)

Planilandia

Una novela de muchas dimensiones

  • 3.9 (98 ratings)
  • 633 Want to read
  • 29 Currently reading
  • 149 Have read

¿Cómo sería la existencia en un mundo de dos dimensiones? ¿Y de una sola? ¿Y de ninguna dimensión? Y, por encima de las tres dimensiones, ¿existen espacios de 4, 5, 10 o más dimensiones? Y, si existen, ¿se puede conectar con ellos?

En 'Planilandia', la fantasía matemática se entrecruza con otro género: el de la sátira social (en su variante de viajes imaginarios en clave cómica, en la línea de Rabelais o Swift). La crítica social aquí alcanza mucho más allá de la sociedad victoriana que constituía su blanco directo. La condición plana del mundo de Planilandia, y la consiguiente imposibilidad, para las figuras planas que lo habitan, de mirar hacia arriba o hacia abajo, funcionan como una eficaz metáfora para la representación satírica de la estrechez de miras de una sociedad regida por una elite satisfecha de sí misma, cuyo prestigio se basa en la desigualdad institucionalizada.

Las posiciones de Edwin A. Abbott, favorables a la completa emancipación de la mujer, a una igualdad universal de derechos cívicos cuya consecución comportaría el derrocamiento de las capas sociales dirigentes, y a la instauración de una democracia popular sustentada por el (entonces todavía lejano) sufragio universal, podrían ser suscritas desde las posiciones sociopolíticas más avanzadas de la actualidad.

Al cabo, pues, de más de un siglo de su primera publicación, 'Planilandia' es un imprescindible relato de desbordante ingenio matemático al tiempo que aguda sátira social.

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Spanish
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69

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Edition Notes

Published in
Palma de Mallorca, Spain
Series
Torre de viento
Translation Of
Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions
Translated From
English

Contributors

Introduction
Banesh Hoffmann
Translator
José Manuel Álvarez Flórez

The Physical Object

Format
Paperback
Number of pages
69
Dimensions
21 x x centimeters

Edition Identifiers

Open Library
OL13307284M
ISBN 10
8476517815
ISBN 13
9788476517819
OCLC/WorldCat
807258269
LibraryThing
8292
Goodreads
230453

Work Identifiers

Work ID
OL118388W
Wikidata
Q728312

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Work Description

Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions, though written in 1884, is still considered useful in thinking about multiple dimensions. It is also seen as a satirical depiction of Victorian society and its hierarchies. A square, who is a resident of the two-dimensional Flatland, dreams of the one-dimensional Lineland. He attempts to convince the monarch of Lineland of the possibility of another dimension, but the monarch cannot see outside the line. The square is then visited himself by a Sphere from three-dimensional Spaceland, who must show the square Spaceland before he can conceive it. As more dimensions enter the scene, the story's discussion of fixed thought and the kind of inhuman action which accompanies it intensifies.

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English

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