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Un animal impronunciable
An Unpronounceable Animal explores the feminine in its most savage and primitive form. Through its stories, it invites us to get lost in unexplored territories where the protagonists transgress the everyday to merge with the monstrous. This anthology…
Tags: 21st century literature, ancestral imagination, archetypes, beauty and horror, contemporary fiction, female protagonists, feminine psyche, language boundaries, Latin American myths, literary symbolism, Magical realism, myth in literature, mythic quest, narrative labyrinths, primal instincts, psychological fiction, short stories, the grotesque, the uncanny, transgression, Venezuela, Venezuelan literature, wild femininity, women writers
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…
El arreo de los vientos
In ¨The Herding of the Winds¨ - as in ¨Exile on the Bowery¨ (1999) or in ¨Creatures of the Night¨ (2000), the fantastic becomes a narrative resource that allows Israel Centeno to create a ¨liberated territory¨ of temporal and spatial magnitudes, as…