Utopian fiction in Todos nosotros

A novel by Enrique Kike Ferrari, Todos nosotros (2019), presents a journey back in time to the past and a somewhat utopia that involves reversing the present. In a way of a self-reflection about the power of the literary invention, the multiple narrators of this novel disorganize History (and diegesis) and prefigure a future that breaks with revolutionary heroism to reinvent new interpretative possibilities. Therefore, Ferrari’s story demands an approach able to place the rewriting of social production modes at the core of interpretation. Fredric Jameson's materialistic hermeneutics provide us with “mediating” tools such as the ideologeme to trace the social meanings of the individual text. In this context, we conceptualize utopia as an ideologeme, capable of acquiring, on the one hand, a conceptual meaning as a collage of experiences (Jameson, Arqueologies of the future) and, on the other, a narrative manifestation, which involves the resolution of a set of social contradictions in fiction. Consequently, utopia allows us to grasp, in Ferrari's text, the conflicting sense of a production mode that registers vestiges of ancient social formations and projections of the future, proposing cultural coordinates for the re-reading of contemporary science fiction.