Freeze-frame: Temporalidades especulativas en la escritura de la Generación Año Cero

Something strange happens with time in the work of the so-called Generation Zero. Time speeds up or slows down, and sometimes it stops completely, allowing for the introduction of speculative elements. In these narratives, time is something other than real(ist) time. I argue that the existence of multiple temporalities in fiction by Generation Zero writers represents an explicit attempt to create a temporal space in contrast with that of the dominant temporality. In the stories by Raúl Flores and Jorge Enrique Lage that this essay analyzes, these divergent temporalities offer an exit from the national space and the narratives that dominate it.