The liminal body: Las visiones (2016), by Edmundo Paz Soldán, and its destruction of the individual

Abstract

Science fiction becomes an instrument of great relevance in an attempt to understand our societies. This is why these texts allow us to approach this changing and diffuse reality from the framework of estrangement, as a way of explaining the present on the basis of an imagined future. The proposed work aims to address this problem, the interrelationships between memory and fiction within a postcolonial vision, through the analysis of how the body and the post‒human —according to Rosi Braidotti's definition— are treated in the collection of short stories Las visiones (2016), by the Bolivian writer Edmundo Paz Soldán, specifically in the stories entitled «El próximo movimiento» and «El ángel de Nova Isa».