La ciencia ficción y lo sublime en «El héroe», de David Rubín
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2025
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Moreno, Fernando Ángel. «La ciencia ficción y lo sublime en “El héroe”, de David Rubín». Kamchatka, n.º 25, 2025, pp. 11-36, https://doi.org/10.7203/KAM.25.27760.
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RESUMEN: En «El héroe», de David Rubín, los arquetipos heroicos se deconstruyen en contra de los valores trascendentes tradicionales, a favor de lo democrático y lo material. En esta línea, la obra representa la lucha entre un paradigma clásico y uno moderno. Esta dicotomía queda especialmente retratada desde un nóvum característico de la ciencia ficción: la ucronía, cuyo punto jonbar ―aquel donde se produce un cambio entre nuestra causalidad histórica y la de la ficción― es la existencia de nuestra tecnología en la Grecia clásica. Lo ucrónico permite a Rubín explorar la dicotomía desde dos líneas diferentes de la ciencia ficción: la prospectiva y el pulp, que a su vez relaciona con lo moderno y lo clásico respectivamente. Además, la diferencia entre la línea prospectiva y la línea pulp se relaciona con lo cotidiano ―la primera― y lo sublime ―la segunda―. Para el análisis parto de trabajos de Hannah Arendt, María Pía Lara, Immanuel Kant y Friedrich Schiller, entre otros.
ABSTRACT: In David Rubín's “The Hero”, heroic archetypes are deconstructed against traditional transcendent values, in favour of the democratic and the material. In this line, the work represents the struggle between a classical and a modern paradigm. This dichotomy is especially portrayed through a characteristic science fiction nóvum: the uchronia, whose jonbar point - where a shift occurs between our historical causality and that of fiction - is the existence of our technology in classical Greece. The uchronic allows Rubín to explore the dichotomy from two different strands of ciencia ficción: the prospective and the pulp, which in turn he relates to the modern and the classical respectively. In turn, the difference between the prospective line and the pulp line relates to the everyday ―the former― and the sublime ―the latter―. For the analysis I use works of Hannah Arendt, María Pía Lara, Immanuel Kant and Friedrich Schiller, among others.
ABSTRACT: In David Rubín's “The Hero”, heroic archetypes are deconstructed against traditional transcendent values, in favour of the democratic and the material. In this line, the work represents the struggle between a classical and a modern paradigm. This dichotomy is especially portrayed through a characteristic science fiction nóvum: the uchronia, whose jonbar point - where a shift occurs between our historical causality and that of fiction - is the existence of our technology in classical Greece. The uchronic allows Rubín to explore the dichotomy from two different strands of ciencia ficción: the prospective and the pulp, which in turn he relates to the modern and the classical respectively. In turn, the difference between the prospective line and the pulp line relates to the everyday ―the former― and the sublime ―the latter―. For the analysis I use works of Hannah Arendt, María Pía Lara, Immanuel Kant and Friedrich Schiller, among others.













