Erick J. Mota's El colapso de las Habanas infinitas (2017): Journey Through the Collapse of Utopias

Abstract

The tensions between individual reality and historical memory are pivotal elements in Erick J. Mota's novel El colapso de las Habanas infinitas (2017). As one of the most important contemporary Cuban science fiction authors, Mota is deeply committed to outlining a new Hispanic-Caribbean canon of the genre. The following article has the aim of analyzing the tangled relationship within the concepts of utopia and melancholy taken as the start and end points of the ideological disillusion caused by the collapse of the revolutionary goal which moves a whole generation of Cubans.