Concept in Definition ABC
Miscellanea / / July 04, 2021
By Florencia Ucha, on Feb. 2015
The one of uchrony It is not at all a concept in current use in our language, it may even be that many are the first time they read it... But the uchrony does not go unnoticed in the world. literary where it occupies a prominent place for being a gender literary precisely characterized by reconstructing history in an alternative way, that is, it proposes as real in the stories that writes, those historical events that could have happened had they not been won By others. That is, it tells events that did not happen but that had a high probability having happened.
What would have happened to his life if he hadn't made that decision ???
Because how many times have we asked ourselves in relation to events in our own life and also of public life, what would have happened if such an event had not occurred and another thing…
A politician who did not die untimely and was able to continue ruling his country; an athlete who did not finish second and won the race; John Lennon was not killed meters from his house; a war in which the defeated really win and so many more events.
Clearly, the meaning of the lives and the things involved in those stories would have been different with that alternative outcome.
True facts as a starting point
It should be noted that in the narrative of novels, stories, uchrony, it reconstructs true and logical facts in such a way that they are totally acceptable to the reader.
So, the uchrony always starts from an event that really happened but develops it in an alternative way and totally different from the outcome it had in reality. It proposes to the reader what would have happened if in reality that event had had a totally different ending than it did.
The literature and means of communication As the movie theater have engaged in several opportunities to produce uchronies about relevant events in the history of some nation that ended differently from reality.
Matches with the Science fiction
Many link the science fiction genre with uchrony, with whom it shares many characteristics, although of course, here the main difference is that the uchrony starts from real events to which the ending is changed, while science fiction generally poses fantastic scenarios.
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