Ironía y exilio en la obra reciente de Federico Patán

Abstract

The aim of this article is to explore the notion of exile in Federico Patán’s most recent works, and the way in which it acquires a sense of universality when considered as a consequence of modernity. I argue that even his autobiography, Una infancia llamada exilio, is sustained by an underlying irony which has become the author’s distinctive feature. This irony embodies a constant critique of the individuals’ lack of ethical and spiritual values during the second half of the twentieth century and the early years of the twenty first, critique which constitutes the central theme of his most recent novel ¿Y el paraíso?