The dichotomy between dystopia and utopia is one of the main themes in the third edition of Festival 42. We will be exploring this polarity from multiple angles and perspectives. On this occasion, we do so by using atypical dystopias, in terms of both authorship and content. Pere Antoni Pons, Ada Castells, Pere Gorgoll and Raül Garrigasait offer four examples of literary dystopias via an unusual incursion into the genre. In Contra el món (Empúries), Pons describes a world where the Serra de Tramuntana in Majorca has disappeared, but everyone is determined to continue living as if nothing has happened.  In Solastàlgia (L’Altra Editorial), Castells presents us with a curious protagonist who is determined to re-establish the Middle Ages using 21st-century technology. Pere Gorgoll also touches on the planetary crisis, but in a satiric way, in his El dia que el món va fer un pet com un aglà (Amsterdam), which won the Roc Boronat Award. This is a novel that is halfway between the legend of Plato's cave and Aldous Huxley’s A Brave New World. And lastly, in Profecia (Edicions de 1984), Garrigasait creates a unique, dark atmosphere which is also full of humour and energy. It speaks of the fertile power to be found in the things we do not master.