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Uchronia

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In 1980, Emmanuel Carrère (b. 1957), the future acclaimed French novelist and screenwriter, chose uchronia—a historical reconstruction based on the alteration of a specific point in the past—as the topic of his thesis. The author attributes the genre's growing popularity to the increasingly aggressive intrusion of the virtual into the real world and a deepening melancholy: the falsification of history becomes a way for dreamers to realize their own "correct" scenario.

The essay explores the phenomena of alternative history, predetermination, and free will, as well as the role of fiction in the formation of individual and collective memory. Is history reducible to the sum of cause-and-effect relationships? Does it have a plan, and can it be changed? Taking the reader into a bizarre labyrinth where literature, philosophy, theology, linguistics, and personal paradoxical reflections are intertwined, Carrère invites us to consider the role of chance in history and the consequences of our choices—how would the face of the world have changed if Cleopatra's nose had been shorter, or Pilate had pardoned Christ?
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