Dystopia and ecological devastation in 2010: Chile en llamas (1998) by Darío Oses

Abstract

Darío Oses’s novel 2010: Chile en llamas (1998) forecasts a future marked by the contamination of all spheres of society. We describe the story as distopic, since it is explained as a negative utopia that neutralizes the Earth’s vital fluxes in connection with the human being. Landscapes, geographic and existentialist territories collapse by the advance of neoliberal economy. Hence, the foundations of western modernity  are ended in a dramatic way. Furthermore, the novel is connected with several postmodernist categories.