La bomba increíble, de Pedro Salinas: lenguajes, intertextualidad y pasado en el género utópico/distópico

Abstract

This paper analyzes, in Pedro Salinas' work La bomba increible, how a dystopian novel rescues and judges the past and how, following the rules of the genre, it criticizes the present and its political and social organization, increased centrally in the increase of different language structures and tools. Our analysis began by reviewing the dichotomies where the discursive use of science present in the novel confronts the different spheres of the social. We are talking about the intersection of nature, the press and politics, which they describe as a hindrance from a past linked to backwardness. That was the starting point to review how intertextuality, in its dialogue with texts from ancient and diverse traditions, and irony, in its possibility of bringing up a double consciousness, ended up transforming in this dystopia into the privileged forms of the emergence of otherness. This analysis of language and its practices was what made it possible to examine the social and political order raised in the novel: an ancient and humanist cultural baggage of centuries and a distant and alien look were its instruments.

Keywords: Spanish literature, dystopia, intertextuality, irony, past.