Crisis and Dystopia in the Current Spanish Novel

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dc.title	Crisis and Dystopia in the Current Spanish Novel. Un incendio invisible, by Sara Mesa and Por si se va la Luz, by Lara Moreno
dc.contributor.author	Zarco Julieta
dc.publisher	Edizioni Ca’ Foscari - Digital Publishing, Fondazione Università Ca’ Foscari
dc.type	Research Article
dc.language.iso	es
dc.identifier.uri	http://edizionicafoscari.it/en/edizioni4/riviste/rassegna-iberistica/2021/116/crisis-y-distopia-en-la-nueva-novela-espanola/
dc.description.abstract	Europe in general and Spain in particular are still experiencing the consequences of the 2008 financial crisis. Spanish cultural narratives have imagined other possible scenarios around a financial crisis that has not only been an economic one, but also a social one. In that context, Spanish literature was used not only as a means to elaborate coherent narratives in times of crisis but also as a space to create other possible worlds. The novels Un incendio invisible (2011), by Sara Mesa, and Por si se ve la Luz (2013), by Lara Moreno, are both set in imaginary places in which their protagonists – sometimes driven by desire and other times by necessity – survive in hostile, abandoned and primitive places. The article attempts to analyse the dominance of the construction of dystopian places and the creation of ‘another possible world’ as a consequence of the financial crisis of 2008.
dc.relation.ispartof	Rassegna iberistica
dc.relation.ispartof	Vol. 44 \| Issue 116 \| December 2021
dc.issued	2021-12-06
dc.dateAccepted	2021-07-12
dc.dateSubmitted	2020-11-09
dc.identifier.issn
dc.identifier.eissn	2037-6588
dc.rights	Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Public License
dc.rights.uri	http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
dc.identifier.doi	10.30687/Ri/2037-6588/2021/17/003
dc.peer-review	yes
dc.subject	Crisis financiera
dc.subject	Distopía
dc.subject	Distopía
dc.subject	Dystopia
dc.subject	Dystopia
dc.subject	Financial crisis
dc.subject	Financial crisis
dc.subject	Lara Moreno
dc.subject	Lara Moreno
dc.subject	New Spanish novel
dc.subject	New Spanish novel
dc.subject	Nueva novela española
dc.subject	Nueva novela española
dc.subject	Por si se va la Luz
dc.subject	Por si se va la Luz
dc.subject	Sara Mesa
dc.subject	Sara Mesa
dc.subject	Un incendio invisible
dc.subject	Un incendio invisible
dc.subject	\| Crisis financiera
dc.subject	\| Crisis financiera

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Un incendio invisible, by Sara Mesa and Por si se va la Luz, by Lara Moreno

Julieta Zarco Università di Genova, Italia

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Europe in general and Spain in particular are still experiencing the consequences of the 2008 financial crisis. Spanish cultural narratives have imagined other possible scenarios around a financial crisis that has not only been an economic one, but also a social one. In that context, Spanish literature was used not only as a means to elaborate coherent narratives in times of crisis but also as a space to create other possible worlds. The novels Un incendio invisible (2011), by Sara Mesa, and Por si se ve la Luz (2013), by Lara Moreno, are both set in imaginary places in which their protagonists – sometimes driven by desire and other times by necessity – survive in hostile, abandoned and primitive places. The article attempts to analyse the dominance of the construction of dystopian places and the creation of ‘another possible world’ as a consequence of the financial crisis of 2008.

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Dec. 6, 2021

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July 12, 2021

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Nov. 9, 2020

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Keywords: Financial crisis • Por si se va la Luz • Dystopia • | Crisis financiera • Crisis financiera • Distopía • Lara Moreno • Sara Mesa • New Spanish novel • Nueva novela española • Un incendio invisible

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