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<em><strong>Las libretas</strong></em>

Las libretas

Hybrid book by Venezuelan writer Fedosy Santaella (Puerto Cabello, 1970), resident in Mexico City since 2017, published by AB ediciones in 2023.…
La irrupción del populismo

La irrupción del populismo

Populism responds to moments of abrupt social change, such as modernization in Latin America or the 2008 financial crisis. As a logic of political…
<strong><em>Venezuela en España: capítulos de una historia literaria extraterritorial</em></strong>

Venezuela en España: capítulos de una historia literaria extraterritorial

This research focuses on the history of the privileged relationship that, throughout the 20th century, was woven between a handful of Venezuelan…
<em><strong>Ficción adulterada: pasiones ilícitas del entresiglo venezolano</strong></em>

Ficción adulterada: pasiones ilícitas del entresiglo venezolano

For those who understand the late 19th-century Latin American novel as a foundational genre—where literature and nation are forged in close…
<em><strong>El desengaño de la modernidad : cultura y literatura venezolana en los albores del siglo XXI</strong></em>

El desengaño de la modernidad : cultura y literatura venezolana en los albores del siglo XXI

This book aims to offer a portrait of what I consider one of the most significant trends in Venezuelan literature of the late 20th century and the new…
<em><strong>Tiempos feroces</strong></em>

Tiempos feroces

Fierce Times can be read as an intimate and essential diary of a country crumbling. From everyday anecdotes to political analysis, with lucidity but…
<em><strong>Crónicas barbitúricas: el asombro y la ira</strong></em>

Crónicas barbitúricas: el asombro y la ira

When I arrived in Spain more than twelve years ago, I knew that if I wanted to survive, I had to write. Only through writing could I make sense of…
<em><strong>La soledad como poética. Dramaturgia venezolana y su puesta en escena</strong></em>

La soledad como poética. Dramaturgia venezolana y su puesta en escena

From the contemporary perspective of theater, a poetics has been developing that transgresses themes and forms of discourse, leading us to a more…
<em><strong>El país del escritor</strong></em>

El país del escritor

What does it mean to escape, to stay, or to be carried away by inertia toward other geographies? What does it mean to travel and live abroad (outside…
<strong><em>Parque en ruinas: Venezuela y las izquierdas</em></strong>

Parque en ruinas: Venezuela y las izquierdas

This book is divided into two parts that function as mirrors that illuminate each other. The first offers a serious inquiry into the left in Latin…
<strong><em>Venezuela: Memorias de un futuro perdido</em></strong>

Venezuela: Memorias de un futuro perdido

Venezuela is like a beached whale, surrounded by a stunned crowd. No one knows exactly how it got there, yet everyone wants to explain the reasons…