Cambio climático y ficción: Solar, A Novel de Ian McEwan

Abstract

Anglophone literary production of the last two decades shows a clear tendency to imagine and narrate the impact of anthropogenic climate change. These fictions ―recently called Cli-Fi― present humanity’s agency as a geological force in the current epoch of the Anthropocene (Crutzen-Stoermer 2000). From an ecocritical reading, the article explores how the Anthropocene paradigm is presented in Solar, A Novel by the British author Ian McEwan, particularly in the representation of three axes: time, space and risk (Trexler 2015; Mehnert 2016), parameters that need resignifying in the Anthropocene.