La construcción de la (anti)utopía a través del género y el espacio nacional: Llorenç Villalonga, M. Aurèlia Capmany y M. Antònia Oliver

Abstract

In this article it will be analyzed the ideological articulation of gender and national aspects in three catalan novels written during last Franco’s years and transition to democracy: M. a. capmany’s Quim/Quima (1971), ll. Villalonga’s Andrea Víctrix (1974), and M. a.  oliver’s  el vaixell d’iràs i no Tornaràs (1976). capmany  uses Woolf ’s transhistorical motif of orlando  in order to recreate the facts that happened in catalan  lands with a hopeful thinking on future social, national  and  gender  matters.  oliver  reflects about  liberty  and  totalitarianism basing on an ideological and stylistic working out, in which sexuality and May 1968 protests utopia are protagonists. on  the other hand, Villalonga presents a world where ethical and gender duality’s paradigm has undergone a radical turn, that is to say, a dystopia that shows coexisting failed sexuality with political and moral decadence.