La ciencia de las despedidas

Creator: Adalber Salas Hernández

Title: La ciencia de las despedidas

Publisher: Editorial Pre-Textos

Date: 2018

Language: Spanish

Description: Several had their hands tied. All showed signs of severe trauma—evidence of blunt force injuries, such as those caused by mallets, and wounds made by piercing weapons. Experts believe the 27 individuals were restrained, systematically executed, and thrown into the lake, where the silt preserved them. This is how bodies learn to speak, to narrate life without eloquence—in kilos of flesh, bile, phlegm, saliva, and merciless glittering dust. Life as gaping lips, decayed teeth, and leaden bones. Skin stretched under the fury of noon, its eye rough and concave.

Subject: Forced migration, poetry, Nostalgia in literature, Farewells, Violence in literature

Type: Text

Format: Printed book

Rights: External resource

Relation:

Video interview with the author

Review by Alberto Hernández in Letralia

Review and English translation by Robin Myers in Harvard Review

Review by Paola Cadena Pardo in La Raíz Invertida

Interview with the author in Prodavinci

WorldCat Record

Identifier: OCLC: 1039936116 | ISBN: 9788417143350

Collection: Poetry

Tags: Adalber Salas Hernández, body, Body and language, Contemporary Latin American poetry, exile, Farewells, Forced migration, Grief, loss, Melancholy, Nostalgia in literature, Pain writing, Poetic memory, Symbolic violence, Violence in literature

Citation: Adalber Salas Hernández, La ciencia de las despedidas, Editorial Pre-Textos, 2018, OCLC: 1039936116 | ISBN: 9788417143350, accessed September 22, 2026, https://archivovenezuela.com/en/items/show/1041