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The article presented here is inscribed in the world of the philosophy of art, and its premise is the fact that in an increasingly extensive territory of literary work, such as dystopian fiction, there is a theoretical-ontological difference between three subgenres that are usually confused, pass for each other or are simply understood as the same thing. Such subgenres are dystopia, apocalypse and post-apocalypse. Thus, the aim of the paper is to determine to what extent these three subgenres would constitute by themselves foundation and frontier in the narrative of an undesirable fictional society. For this purpose, philosophical hermeneutics and case studies were used as research methods. Synthetically, the results indicate that the literary foundation of an undesirable society acquires —somewhat fictitiously— geographical vigor from the territorial genesis of the confrontation. Hence, such geography turns out to be at the same time a physical geography, a human geography and a symbolic geography. But these subgenres also represent a frontier in the literature of anticipation, an essentially ideological frontier. That is to say, it is concluded, fascism, Nazism and segregations would establish a doctrine without which the “Islamic radicals”, the “non- Aryans” or the “infra”, at least from the perspective of literary fiction, would simply leave to exist. If this is so, the works examined seem to testify to the conversion of an Apocalypse as prophecy into an apocalypse as mutilation.
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