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El brillo de los niños
Novel by Venezuelan writer Gustavo Valle (Caracas, 1967), resident in Buenos Aires, Argentina, published by Pre-Textos (Valencia) in 2025. A radiograph of Venezuelan society narrated through fractures in reality and altered dimensions, blending…
El cangrejo ermitaño: antología poética
Arturo Gutiérrez Plaza (Caracas, Venezuela, 1962) is an unavoidable voice in Venezuelan poetry. His precise language, stripped of rhetoric, draws us with reflection, depth, and conciseness into the everyday, examining lost places, the experience of…
El Caracazo 2025
A collective hip-hop anthem that brings together 20 Venezuelan artists in a display of urban unity and national pride."After 14 years, one of the most iconic anthems of Venezuelan rap is reborn stronger than ever. Twenty-five rappers from Caracas—old…
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,…
El dolor de la sangre
Martha, a renowned Venezuelan photographer living in Lima, receives an unexpected assignment to do a photo shoot in her home country. Along with this invitation, memories of her childhood begin to haunt her—like a slow-burning fire coursing through…
El fin de la tristeza
The further you are from the news, the closer you are to happiness. That’s how Gabriel Medina thinks and lives. Until the day, unexpectedly, the police arrest his psychiatrist. From that moment on, a different order seems to take hold of his life,…
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…
El paraíso perdido
“El Paraíso Perdido” is a critical song that explores how paradise is eroded by corruption and exploitation. Through imagery of consumerism, oppression, and manipulation –"Lead, bread, and circuses / The people pay"– La Vida Bohème makes an urgent…
El revuelo de los insectos
Two men in uniform flee through a tangled jungle. They are deserters. They are lovers. Lovers fleeing toward freedom as they enter each other's prison. A first image as paradoxical as the fact that man can make time move forward by delving into the…
El síndrome de Lisboa
Lisbon Syndrome takes place in a near future or an alternate present. The collapse of communications and the widespread failure of technology rumors surrounding what happened on the other side of the world discouraging and distressing. The…
El tercer país
Everything takes place on a border, the one that separates the eastern mountain range from the western one. Angustias Romero flees the plague with her husband and two children strapped to her back. The seven-month-old twins die on the journey, and…
En las ruinas
The death that results from the reunion of an old group of friends, the final days of a writer shortly before the outbreak of the Spanish Civil War, the boy who sees his cousin and playmate disappear, or the old woman who begins to lose her memory…
Escribir afuera: cuentos de intemperies y querencias
A woman travels to France to seek family roots in a small town, which will allow her to obtain a foreign passport to escape Venezuela; another visits the Museum of Innocence in Istanbul and, upon seeing the objects that recount the lives in a novel…
Estaba llorando la Boa
MPeach, Tambor Ellas, Tambor NYC, and Willie Quintana sing "Estaba llorando la Boa" while playing tambores and celebrating Venezuela’s Carnival de El Callao at Friends and Lovers in Brookyln, NY on March 8, 2024.
Esto no es wachi wachi
“Esto No Es Wachi Wachi” is a song by the Venezuelan group Bacalao Men, included on the album Sangre, released in 2018. The piece features Horacio Blanco as co-writer. The track blends the eclectic sounds that characterize the band: a fusion of…
Esto no es wachi wachi
A short, enigmatic phrase expressing a playful negation with streetwise flair, using “wachi wachi” as a rhythmic, culturally urban element.
Expiatorio
"The narrative voices in Expiatorio are skillfully developed to guide the reader through geographic spaces significant to the author's own biography (Valencia, Bogotá, Valle del Cauca). However, many of these journeys also allow the reader to assign…
Fabricated Realities
"Fabricated Realities by Alejandro Rizzo is a series of staged photographs about the current socio-political and economic issues within the context of Venezuela. In this particular exhibition, two photographs from the series are displayed. One aims…
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…
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"A single path connects the town to the asylum, but it is no ordinary road. The route consists of numbered squares, and to cross it, one must follow the order and obey the rules. 'Do not step out of your squares.' 'Running is strictly…