Journal | Rassegna iberistica
Journal issue | 44 | 116 | 2021
Research Article | Crisis and Dystopia in the Current Spanish Novel

Crisis and Dystopia in the Current Spanish Novel

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

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.


Open access | Peer reviewed

Submitted: Nov. 9, 2020 | Accepted: July 12, 2021 | Published Dec. 6, 2021 | Language: es

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

Copyright © 2021 Julieta Zarco. This is an open-access work distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction is permitted, provided that the original author(s) and the copyright owner(s) are credited and that the original publication is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. The license allows for commercial use. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.

Permalink http://doi.org/10.30687/Ri/2037-6588/2021/17/003


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