This basque literature has a small readership in its original language, but this does not affect the imagination, which has little to do with it. Basque letters make a strong commitment far beyond their ancestors. Perfect for typing in Basque novels Speculative fiction as evidenced by Katixa Agirre’s (Transit) ‘De nuevo centauro’After the perfect reception of ‘las madres no’, he builds a world in the mid-21st century where most of its inhabitants put their physical bodies aside and focus on the pleasures that virtual reality can bring them. For example, the protagonist is a technology designer working on a project about Mary Wollstonecraft, the author of the seminal ‘Women’s Rights’ and mother of Frankenstein’s creature, Mary Shelley. The technology of the moment allows Paula to share the bed with the image of the 18th century writer.
Agirre (Vitoria, 1981) is not, by his own account, a great science fiction reader, but has an interest in science fiction. Gender as fertile ground for utopian thought, a bit like Ursula K. Le Guin used it. The author explains in Barcelona: “Although the author of The Left Hand of Darkness has invented distant and imaginary worlds, I am thinking of a much closer and more realistic future.” After all, many of the ‘inventions’ featured in his novel, such as haptic clothing that allow us to ‘feel’ the metaverse, already exist, although they are not yet in widespread use.
no morals possible
At the time of Le Guin, who published her first novel in 1959, the future was still far away, but today our perception of technology is part of our thinking, we’ve seen how the internet can change our lives, and it’s easy. less for Agirre, who imagines what the digital future will be like. “We live in a life where the real is the imagination.. There are myths that find us as a society, our personal imaginations weigh heavily, so I think it’s absurd to want to draw a line between fiction and reality.”
Despite the author is guided by a guide distinctly feminist consciousnessHe did not want to make a moral fable, he underlines this. There is no trace of a ‘1984’ adapted to the times. He prefers to move in an uncertain region where things are not as stable as we think. In ‘De nuevo centauro’, which refers to a hybrid being who can be both a man and a horse, Paula’s character enters the meta-universe as a man and in the physical world is a woman. Pure and rich mess. “According to me The next big revolution is the idea that genders are not fixed.. I am a professor at the university and there is something I see in the behavior of my students. They carry another roll, do not identify with the duo, and do so naturally. This seems like a good idea if we want to end the oppression of one gender on the other.
The fact that the author, who is a professor of Audio-Visual Communications, is not pro-apocalyptic for the future does not invalidate the criticism. lives with some guilt in his relationship with technology. “The system is made to extract all your data and trap you as a customer. We have to be more critical, less trustworthy. We went to Google, we thought it was a great search engine, and when we wanted to make it happen, our whole lives were trapped there so that ‘evil geniuses’ like Elon Musk could take full advantage of a world where wealth accumulates in a matter of seconds. there is less and less purchasing power for the people and the majority. It will be necessary to remove the submachine gun… figuratively speaking, yes”.