Utopía y distopía del fracaso revolucionario en la reciente novelística cubana
Since the nineties, Cuban narratives have been investigating the collapse of the revolutionary utopia. Generally, literary criticism has tended to establish a differentiation between those writers who were sons of utopia, born just a few years before 1959, and those born during the failure of that u...
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| Zusammenfassung: | Since the nineties, Cuban narratives have been investigating the collapse of the revolutionary utopia. Generally, literary criticism has tended to establish a differentiation between those writers who were sons of utopia, born just a few years before 1959, and those born during the failure of that utopia, after that year. The two groups are distinguished by a fundamental feature: the former came to share a faith in the premises of the revolution, while the latter never did. Despite this difference, there are points in common between “los desencantados” and “los novísimos” that lead us to rethink how to approach new subjectivities in a nation that appears to have no future. My research involves a comparative study of post-utopian imaginaries through the novels La novela de mi vida by Leonardo Padura (2002), Muerte de nadie by Arturo Arango (2004), and Otras plegarias atendidas by Mylene Fernández Pintado (2003). These works express a search for existential meaning that overcomes the end of the socialist utopia. The utopian failure leads to the emergence of an ambivalent melancholy. While this may lead to immobilizing or narcissistic attitudes of the characters, it also promotes a creative dimension capable of transforming the loss in alternative worlds through literature and the configuration of heterotopic spaces. Thus, revolutionary disappointment does not necessarily mean the end of utopian desire but a change in the way of conceiving it. |
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