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The article considers the correlation of fact and fiction in Thomas More’s “Utopia”. Thomas More (1478-1535) is an outstanding humanist, the pioneer of the English Renaissance and Modernity. This year marks the 500th anniversary of its publication. The jubilee of the “Libellus vere aureus, nec minus salutaris quam festivus, de optimo rei publicae statu deque nova insula Utopia” offers a fine opportunity to rethink the historical significance of this book for the world literature. Almost all subsequent social projects - from Thommaso Campanella’s City of the Sun to 20 th century utopian designs - point back to “Utopia” as their primary source. The course of history could have been different without these ideas and practices. The article traces the dialectics of the real and fantastic, truth and fiction in “Utopia”. It is traditionally held that More’s book laid the foundation of a new genre – that of social criticism in the form of speculative fiction, “Utopia” is also believed to have developed a new way of thinking about future in the form of the fantastic. The name of the island based on the pun of ou-topos / eu- topos, as well as the names of various locations and characters (Amaurot - “foggy”, the Anider — “anhydrous”, Hythloday — “versed in nonsense”, etc.) and numerous other characteristics of the ideal society, seem to prove the absolute priority of fiction in More’s text, having little connection with the reality of his times. Some authors (A. Morgan, H. Herzog, E. Estrada, etc.), however, defend the opposite point of view. According to A. Morgan, More’s book is not that of fictional fantasy, but a story about a journey to Peru. Other authors find the historicity and reality of “Utopia” in descriptions of Cuba, while still others point at the similarities between the customs of the Utopians and traditions of the indigenous peoples of America. Some researchers have noted that More’s social criticism addresses specific issues of his times. We have considered all of these points to find out the correlation of the real and the fictional in “Utopia”, including the circumstances of More’s staying in Antwerp in 1515, or the presence of real historical figures (Peter Egidius (Peter Giles), cardinal George Morton, etc.) in his book. We also address the important sources of information about the New World which More could have been familiar with, such as the letters of Columbus, travellers’ diaries and memoranda, “Decades” by P. Martyr de Angleria, “El Nuevo Mundo” (“The New World”) by A. Vespucci (publ. 1503), etc. More’s attitude to the information about the New World where the real and the fantastic were deeply mixed was, in fact, critical, with a good deal of irony. The great thinker explicitly outlined his interests in writing “Utopia” - social factors of the state’s and society’s prosperity.

Реальное и фантастическое в «Утопии» Т. Мора