ايكاريا اوفاتيم

We are influenced by the dream of the virtuous city, and the ideas of the French philosopher Cabet in his book "Journey to Icaria." The two friends, Blotz and Wagner, embark on a journey to the New World to participate in building the perfect society there. However, they part ways upon return, coinciding with the massive changes Europe was experiencing at the beginning of the twentieth century. While Blotz immerses himself in realizing Nazi dreams of building the perfect society, becoming one of the prominent figures in theories of eugenics and racial purification, Wagner isolates himself from life; working secretly in a library that hides banned books. Despite the rupture between them, their fates reconnect after the fall of the Third Reich, due to a mission sent to them by the American officer, Hanzen, to uncover the secrets of Blotz’s life. This is done through interrogating the friend who accompanied him through long periods of his life. Through the secrets revealed in the lengthy dialogues between book lovers and the memoirs of a victorious officer in his defeated homeland, Ofa Tim’s novel Icaria explores the extent to which humans may descend in their pursuit of building the perfect society.