ALLÒ QUE NO S’ESDEVINGUÉ: HISTÒRIA I GÈNERES ESPECULATIUS EN L’OBRA DE JOAN-LLUÍS LLUÍS

Abstract

This article analyses the literary career of Joan-Lluís Lluís (Perpinyà, 1963) from a speculative fiction perspective. After a few works which adhered to noir fiction canons, Joan-Lluís Lluís consolidated his career as an author with novels that offer a great variability and combine non-mimetic genres. The article follows the occurrences of these speculative elements in the first works of the author, and proceeds to ascribe his speculative fiction works, written during the twenty-first century, to different genres and subgenres, especially magic realism and futuristic or alternative science-fiction history. The analysis highlights the author’s constant interest in the use of historical speculation as a tool to denounce linguistic and cultural colonization processes. This article also links the author’s work to the various speculative fiction movements of Catalan literature, involving his predecessors (Pere Calders, Joan Oliver, Joan Perucho and Avel·lí Artís-Gener), and current movements whose authors share his same interest in historic speculative fiction.