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En este articulo se analiza «El pais de los ciegos» (1904) de H. G. Wells como una parabola del individuo post-darwiniano que refleja la influencia de la mitografia victoriana y de los modelos antropologicos sobre el mundo primitivo. Este cuento finisecular es un juego intelectual o jeu d’esprit, con multiples inversiones ironicas, basado en paradigmas utopicos, evolutivos e imperialistas. La macro-estructura de este relato especulativo niega el proverbio original, subvierte la alegoria de la caverna de Platon y re-escribe el mito edenico (eu-topia). Manteniendose fiel a las convenciones de esta tradicion e invirtiendo en ocasiones su sugerente simbolismo, Wells exploro, en los inicios de su carrera literaria, temas contemporaneos complejos como el colonialismo y el imperialismo desde una perspectiva ironica. Vision y ceguera son nociones equiparables a las oposiciones binarias de supremacia y subordinacion, civilizacion y naturaleza en esta anti-utopia (o utopia ironica) andina. This article examines H. G. Wells’s «The Country of the Blind» (1904) as a parable of post-Darwinian man, influenced by Victorian mythography and anthropological models of primitivism. Drawing on utopian, evolutionary and imperialist paradigms, this fin-de-siecle tale is an intellectual game or thought experiment with multiple ironic reversals. The macro-structure of this speculative story is a negation of the original proverb about the country of the blind, with echoes of Plato’s Parable of the Cave, as well as a rewriting of the archetypal myth of a remote pastoral eu-topia. By remaining faithful to the conventions of this tradition and sometimes inverting their suggestive symbolism, the early Wells explored the complexities of colonialism and imperialism, and treated them in the ironic mode. Sight and blindness simply reverse definitions of supremacy and subordination, civilization and nature in this Andean anti-utopia (or ironic utopia).

“My world is sight”: H. G. Wells’s anti-utopian imagination in “The country of the blind”