El país del escritor

Creator: Gustavo Valle

Title: El país del escritor

Publisher: El 8vo. Loco Ediciones

Date: 2013

Language: Spanish

Description: 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 successive incomplete versions? What is this stubborn tendency to be from elsewhere, and why does one decide on distance instead of closeness, or, for that matter, where one is near and where one is far, what is one's assigned place, if one exists at all? These and other questions occupy this set of autofictionalized chronicles in which transit and writing intermingle to form two sides of the same migratory experience. An unstable diary of wandering, accidental and provisional, in permanent interrogation of what it says and who writes it. (Publisher's synopsis translated from Spanish by Archivo Venezuela)

Subject: Authors, Exiled, Exiles in literature, Migration, Writing, Voyages and travels, Gustavo Valle

Type: Text

Format: Printed book

Rights: External resource

Relation:

Gustavo Valle talks with Equidistancias about what writing abroad has meant to him

Interview with the author by Mariu Gallizo in Itinerancias

Review by Ricardo Ramírez Requena in Prodavinci

Review by Luis Perozo Cervantes in Letralia

Publisher page in El 8vo Loco

WorldCat Record

Identifier: OCLC: 881244527

Collection: Essay

Tags: autofiction, Distance, exile, Gustavo Valle, Identity crisis, In-betweenness, Inner journey, Migration, Personal geography, Psychic wandering, Writing and uprooting

Citation: Gustavo Valle, El país del escritor, El 8vo. Loco Ediciones, 2013, accessed September 22, 2026, https://archivovenezuela.com/en/items/show/1065