Published: 2022-10-25

Mi corazón visto desde el espacio by Alejandro Cuevas as a “capitalocenic novel”

Katarzyna Gutkowska-Ociepa Logo ORCID

Abstract

The main objective of the article is to investigate the usefulness of the notion of Capitalocene proposed by Jason W. Moore in the interpretation of Alejandro Cuevas’s most recent novel: Mi corazón visto desde el espacio (2019). The work of Cuevas, a writer from Valladolid with much experience in challenging various social problems of 21st century Spain, indeed gains a much more nuanced interpretative dimension, as it reveals the scope of the author’s critique of contemporaneity that encompasses a whole range of issues that go beyond the boundaries of the Anthropocene and require a bolder and more contemporary frame of reading. Thus, Cuevas’s fifth novel can be read as a “capitalocenic novel” as it turns out to be a quasi-manifesto of the weaknesses of the self in today’s System.

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Gutkowska-Ociepa, K. (2022). Mi corazón visto desde el espacio by Alejandro Cuevas as a “capitalocenic novel”. Romanica Silesiana, 22(2), 1–12. https://doi.org/10.31261/RS.2022.22.04

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Vol. 22 No. 2 (2022)
Published: 2023-05-12


ISSN: 1898-2433
eISSN: 2353-9887

Publisher
Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Śląskiego | University of Silesia Press

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