Abstract

FERMIN, Daniel. Dystopia of the present: notes on Jinete a pie by Israel Centeno. Co-herencia [online]. 2019, vol.16, n.30, pp.59-77. ISSN 1794-5887.  https://doi.org/10.17230/co-herencia.16.30.3.

This paper proposes an analytical reading of the novel Jinete a pie (2014) by Israel Centeno, part of the group of works published in recent years which envision a dystopian future for Venezuela. First, the origin of dystopia as a literary genre as well as its utopian background is reviewed and the boom of the Venezuelan dystopian novel in the 21st century is discussed. Then, the features of Jinete a pie are examined in order to analyze both the construction of a dystopian narrative that refers to a Caracas devastated by violence and its relationship with the current Venezuelan context.

Keywords : Dystopia; utopia; literary genre; Venezuelan literature; contemporary Latin America literature.

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