The fool's dream: the fall of another new Eden and the Utopian appeal of ethnic solidarity.(Critical essay) From: Utopian Studies | Date: March 22, 2007| Author: Melkonian, Markar | COPYRIGHT 2007 Society for Utopian Studies. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group.Copyright information

In the last paragraph of Raffi's historical novel The Fool, the hero-"fool," Vartan, wakes from a dream of his native Armenia transformed into a socialist homeland (217). (1) Julian West, Edward Bellamy's protagonist in Looking Backward, also woke from a dream that was the undisguised fulfillment of a utopian wish, but Raffi's Fool first appeared in 1881--seven years before Bellamy's influential novel--and it took form six thousand miles from the shores of Bellamy's Boston. Genocid...

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