| Summary: | A series of novels from the 1990s and 2000s proposed apocalyptic or post-apocalyptic worlds that caused a return to the desert, but none explained the causes of this turning back in time. The two more recent novels that I study, instead, explain the natural, economic or political cause of the new landscape. Aboaf locates the desert in a specific territory, the Delta, and narrates the progressive process of its production by admissible natural causes within the space-time order that we understand as real. Schierloh erases the recognizable contours of the world, but attributes an efficient cause to the destruction of the city. Both involve insular space, conventionally associated with utopia, in the projection of the world to come but in different ways: the ecological catastrophe in El ojo y la flor liquidates the possible location of the ideal while Schierloh makes it the only way out of the desert that the city has become. This work deals with these new post-apocalyptic imaginaries through the landscapes the novels build, the causes of the catastrophe and the spaces where it takes place and where the novels plot forms of life after the end.
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