Distopías poéticas de la sobremodernidad: Stanislaw Lem y su propuesta en fábulas de robots

Abstract

The purpose of this article is to clarify what is a poetic dystopia under the literary approach of Stanislaw Lem, as a fundamental contribution to current science fiction literature. To this end, the characteristics of dystopia in the historicity of the genre and its relationship with the concept of overmodernity, theoretically developed by contemporary social anthropology, are examined. For such an exercise, it is fundamental to approach the social and cultural context of the literary production of this author, in particular with: Fábulas de Robots, which expresses the crisis of meaning of the present man, the way in which this work is created and at the same time received, to argue that science fiction literature is, par excellence, the literature of overmodernity. As an interdisciplinary exercise, the reflections and contributions in the construction of a fictional poetics, from the sociological, anthropological and phenomenological point of view, are proposed.

Keywords

• poetic dystopia
• overmodernity
• science fiction
• crisis of meaning and social anthropology