Open AccessUn viaje hacia el pasado mexicano: Diego Cañedo, seguidor de H. G. Wells
Author(s) -
Alejandro Arteaga Martínez
Publication year - 2022
Publication title -
catedral tomada
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 2169-0847
DOI - 10.5195/ct/2021.480
Subject(s) - theme (computing) , humanities , plot (graphics) , period (music) , criticism , history , art , literature , computer science , aesthetics , statistics , mathematics , operating system
Palamás, Echevete y yo o el lago asfaltado (Palamás, Echevete and I or the asphalted lake), Mexican Diego Cañedo’s second novel (1945), elaborates the time travel to the Mexican past. The sci-fi theme of the novel sustains a social criticism, and imitates H. G. Wells’ The Time Machine plot. In this essay, the sociocritical part of Cañedo’s work is studied, on one hand, because it seems to respond to the social problems of the period 1934-1946; and, on the other hand, because the relations established with Wells’ novel.