El arreo de los vientos

Creator: Israel Centeno

Title: El arreo de los vientos

Publisher: Kalathos ediciones

Date: 2021

Language: Spanish

Description: 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 his creatures wander through Seville, Caracas, Paris, Porto Novo, Salvador de Bahía, Moscow or the mythical kingdom of Dahomey, crossing portals, boiling cauldrons and alternating with witches, liberators, vampires and heroes of independence, because ¨The Herding of the Winds¨ is a novel narrated from within the ¨Borgesian aleph¨, through the M´Kraan crystal of the Marvel universe or from the depths of the wormhole of the Dark series, thus abolishing eras and cronologies, with the purpose of celebrating a sacrifice reminiscent of the outcome of ¨The Cortázar's "the night face up," only instead of hunters of flowery war, Israel Centeno unleashes the furious erineas of the Yoruba cult in "The Herding of the Winds." (Publisher's synopsis translated from Spanish by Archivo Venezuela)

Subject: Fantasy fiction, Magic, Occultism, Yoruba (African people), Mythical creatures

Type: Text

Format: Printed book

Rights: External resource

Relation:

Review by Les Quintero in The Wynwood Times

Review on De lector a lector

Review by Koldo CF on Un libro al día

Note on the publication in Letralia

Identifier: OCLC: 1292476738 | ISBN: 9788412331608

Collection: Narrative fiction

Tags: Alternate timelines, Decolonial fiction, fantasy, Magical realism, Portals, Revolutionary heroes, Ritual, Vampires, Yoruba myth

Citation: Israel Centeno, El arreo de los vientos, Kalathos ediciones, 2021, OCLC: 1292476738 | ISBN: 9788412331608, accessed September 22, 2026, https://archivovenezuela.com/en/items/show/1067