„Mi corazón visto desde el espacio” de Alejandro Cuevas como una “novela capitalocénica”
“Mi corazón visto desde el espacio” by Alejandro Cuevas as a “capitalocenic novel”

Summary/Abstract: The main objective of the article is to investigate the usefulness of the notion of Capitalocene proposed by Jason W. Moore in the interpretation of Alejandro Cuevas’s most recent novel: Mi corazón visto desde el espacio (2019). The work of Cuevas, a writer from Valladolid with much experience in challenging various social problems of 21st century Spain, indeed gains a much more nuanced interpretative dimension, as it reveals the scope of the author’s critique of contemporaneity that encompasses a whole range of issues that go beyond the boundaries of the Anthropocene and require a bolder and more contemporary frame of reading. Thus, Cuevas’s fifth novel can be read as a “capitalocenic novel” as it turns out to be a quasi-manifesto of the weaknesses of the self in today’s System.

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