Utopía y anti-utopía en la narrativa breve de Antonio Espina, Rosa Chacel, Benjamín Jarnés y Francisco Ayala
Utopia and dystopia in the short fictions of Antonio Espina, Rosa Chacel, Benjamín Jarnés and Francisco Ayala

Summary/Abstract: Abstract: To modernist and avant-garde art the utopian as well as anti-utopian visions represent a manner of reacting to a time of crisis by offering divergent images of the present or of not so distant a future. In this article we choose to discuss the way in which utopian and anti-utopian ideas on life and art get reflected in the short narrative of some of the most important 1927 Spanish generation of prose writers, especially those who started their career following the aesthetic line traced by the philosopher José Ortega y Gasset. We are referring to Antonio Espina, Rosa Chacel, Francisco Ayala and Benjamín Jarnés. We will take into account their artistic believes and will approach the formal aspects and the basic constituents of the fictional worlds each one of them constructs in their short-stories published between 1926 and 1929. The main focus will deal with concepts like hybrid genre, lyrical introspection through myth and metaphor, negative themes, ambiguous significance that points to a disillusioned, dystopian approach to reality.

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