Cenital o el camino hacia el cénit del petróleo
ISSN: 1132-9823
Year of publication: 2016
Volume: 40
Issue: 1
Pages: 67-80
Type: Article
More publications in: Millars: Espai i historia
Abstract
In Cenital (2012), the third novel of Emilio Bueso, we are presented with the dystopian vision of a world in which fossil fuels no longer exist. The ecological and social con sequences this situation entails lead to a crusade against a savage and ruthless capitalism. Cenital is the cruel but visionary history of an ecofortified village that protects itself against a world in which pets hove become the food and progress is only the precursor of destruction, ruin, and barbarism. In this article we offer an ecocritical reading of this amazing and apocalyptic novel. Based on the idea of the arrival of a new era: the Anthropocene, we will discuss how the collapse of the economy may affect the mind-set of an entire planet.