Autonosuya, curiosa novela politico-burlesca is a curious novel, first published by installments in the Cuban newspaper EL IMPARCIAL DE MATANZAS in 1886. As a book it was published posthumously in 1897. At that time, Cuba was going through the necessary war, initiated by Jose Marti in 1895 to secure the island's independence from Spain, a war that would end three years later with the U.S. intervention. From an ideological standpoint, Autonosuya is an indictment of Cuban independence and self-government. With that objective, Fontanilles narrates what would happen on the island once Spain grants Cubans their autonomy. The result is a novel about two dictators (the Sabicu brothers), written in the satirical tradition of many pro-Spanish newspapers in Cuba at the time, but also a novel that describes dystopic scenarios such as Jonathan Swift's Gulliver's travels (1726) and H. G. Wells' The Time Machine (1895). In this type of narrative the future is described as chaotic and undesirable, as . CLICK HERE TO DOWNLOAD THIS BOOK FOR FREE