“The Supremacy of Uruguay” (1933), inverosimilitud y humor en un cuento de Ciencia Ficción de E. B. White

Abstract

On November 25th, 1933, the magazine The New Yorker publishes a science fiction short story written by E. B. White, entitled “The Supremacy of Uruguay”, in which a Uruguayan hotel clerk creates a war machine able to reduce the world populace to insanity by scattering love messages. The aim of this article is to present this science fiction story from a perspective that includes the absurd and the implausible of a fantastic fiction. The article includes diverse perspectives and interpretations that range from the literary, the anthropologic and the historical to the techno-science.