Vibrancy and Desolation in Fernanda Trías' Mugre rosa (2020)

Mugre rosa (2020), by Uruguayan author Fernanda Trias, portrays a dystopian world devastated by a plague linked to environmental toxicity. It is also, I argue, a work of extraordinary vividness that evinces a concern about literary form and language. Trias's style - her intricate use of description, formal and structural innovations, and figurative expression- possesses a vibrancy that works against the desolation enfolding through the diegesis. This essay probes how the novel's concerns intersect with questions explored in fields such as ecocriticism and the environmental humanities. It also delves into the particularities of Trias's style, parsing the implications of her use of language and form, which alternatively expand, nuance, transform, and collide with premises established at a diegetic level. Throughout the discussion, attention is given to the novel's affective resonances and to its engagement with the nonhuman. The essay seeks to illuminate how Mugre rosa intervenes in the debate about the agency of literature in the Anthropocene.

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Mugre rosa (2020) by Uruguayan author Fernanda Trias is a dystopian novel that depicts a world devastated by a plague linked to environmental toxicity. It is characterized by its vividness and its concern for literary form and language. This essay explores the novel's intersection with fields such as ecocriticism and the environmental humanities, and delves into Trias's style, analyzing its implications on language and form within the narrative.