NOVELAS ANTICIPATORIAS DEL SIGLO XXI: UNA APROXIMACIÓN A UN GÉNERO QUE CRECE EN LA ARGENTINA EN CRISIS.

In his book Postales del Porvenir (2006), Fernando Reati gathered a corpus of narratives published after the comeback of democracy in Argentina, from 1985 to the change of the millennium, which he named "anticipatory literature in any of its variations (speculative science-fiction, political-fiction, anti-utopia, dystopia) (13), because it deals with concerns about a relatively near future caused by present or past crises, generally in the context of military dictatorship and repression, exiles, disappearances, late capitalism and increasing globalization, in a peripheral country. In this paper, we aim to analyze the presence of these categories and topics in Pedro Mairal's second novel, El año del desierto (2005), and in Claudia Aboaf's third novel, El Rey del Agua, recently published (Alfaguara, 2016), with the objective of reflecting upon 21st century anticipatory narratives' characteristics through the study of these samples, that we consider representative of the two most significant tendencies of this genre in Argentina: the apocalyptic one (El año del desierto) and the dystopic one (El Rey del Agua). [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]