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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 action, it constructs its discourse from an invocation to the "people," who constitute themselves,…
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 behind it. What happened to this country that once seemed so full of promise?
Rafael Osío Cabrices…
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 dialogue—Ficción adulterada by Nathalie Bouzaglo poses a challenge. It is no surprise that adultery, as a…
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 millennium: the collective critique of the developmentalist optimism common in state discourses,…
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 also with humor and tenderness, Padrón investigates and records reality, always seeking to tell it…
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 things and find the strength to steer the cayuco of my own prose. The texts in Crónicas barbitrúricas…
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 complex view of art and its meanings. The fundamental objective of this research is to analyze Solitude…
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 of where, of whom); what does it mean to abandon what belongs to you?, only to reconstruct it in…
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 writers and the Spanish literary field. Pedro Emilio Coll (1872-1947), Rufino Blanco Fombona (1874-1944),…
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 America; the second proposes a close examination, based on very specific aspects, of the Venezuelan…
Las libretas
Hybrid book by Venezuelan writer Fedosy Santaella (Puerto Cabello, 1970), resident in Mexico City since 2017, published by AB ediciones in 2023. Combining diary, essay, and chronicle, the work reflects on the function of notebooks in the writer's…