Chulapos mambo

Creator: Juan Carlos Méndez Guédez

Title: Chulapos mambo

Publisher: Casa de Cartón

Date: 2011

Language: Spanish

Description: Alejandro wants to leave his wife behind to live happily with his lover. Simao needs money, and Henry has left everything—country, job, and family—to become a famous writer. Three scoundrels, three innocent people, and, ultimately, three men in love united by a delusional plan. Thugs, pornographic actresses, shady businesses, persecution of famous writers, eighties rock, Caribbean autocrats, kidnapping of literary critics... Alejandro and Simao know that the success of everything depends on Henry, because he's not just any writer: he's literature made man. It's true that he's short, fat, clumsy, poor, ugly, an "illegal immigrant," and that, what's more, he can't write, but that doesn't matter, because a relevant work always breaks the law. (Publisher's synopsis translated from the Spanish by Archivo Venezuela)

Subject: Satire, Black humor, Immigrants, venezuelan literature, Writing

Type: Text

Format: Printed book

Rights: External resource

Relation:

Presentation of *Chulapos Mambo* in Madrid

Summary of *Chulapos Mambo* in Venezuelan Literature UK

Juan Carlos Méndez Guédez: Market Challenges and Affective Transparency in *Latin American Literature Today*

Review by Beatriz Rodríguez Delgado in *Letralia*

Identifier: OCLC: 784152518 | ISBN: 9788493889241

Collection: Narrative fiction

Tags: Absurd, Betrayal, Dark comedy, Juan Carlos Méndez Guédez, Literary parody, Literary world, Metafiction, Migrant experience, satire, Toxic masculinity, Venezuela, Venezuelan narrative

Citation: Juan Carlos Méndez Guédez, Chulapos mambo, Casa de Cartón, 2011, OCLC: 784152518 | ISBN: 9788493889241, accessed September 22, 2026, https://archivovenezuela.com/en/items/show/1071