يوتوبيا لخالد توفيق : معمار روائي يقاوم انهيار القيم و خراب الروح

Abstract EN

This essay focuses on the creative relation between two forms of art, architecture and the novel.

First, this essay explores the fundamentals of analogy.

Characteristics common to both forms of art : notions of image and composition..

will be studied in order to feed the reflection on this subject The second part applies the foundations drawn from this analogy to the novel written by Ahmed Khaled Tawfiq ( 2008) is the future.

we are in Egypt in 2023, and, after a division of classes, the very rich live in a part of the city, protected by high walls and ancient American marines.

High security for the very rich while the rest of the populace, the poor, live in slums, these are the Others.

What is interesting in this novel is the alternation and symmetry between two visions of the world, tow places and tow architectures .

but The two Ahmed Towfik describes a society (both inside and outside) in a dark vision of today, black of the future In the end, the analysis of this analogy: architecture of the novel and architecture in the novel demonstrate that reflects a modern aesthetic vision and a pessimistic ideological position that resists the cultural and moral fall.