En las ruinas
Creator: Juan Carlos Méndez Guédez
Title: En las ruinas
Publisher: Castalia Ediciones
Date: 2024
Language: Spanish
Description: The death that results from the reunion of an old group of friends, the final days of a writer shortly before the outbreak of the Spanish Civil War, the boy who sees his cousin and playmate disappear, or the old woman who begins to lose her memory are some of the seven stories that make up this volume of tales, united by a single concept: the innocence with which one can live among ruins and rubble. These narratives, written with a remarkable variety of registers and techniques, explore the desolation, the tenderness, and the sentimentality of beings who survive as best they can, under a gaze from the depths of their interiority, "real" stories set against a mythical backdrop. Thus, like their protagonists, the cities follow one another and interchange: Madrid, Caracas, Barquisimeto, Aix en Provence, or ancient Jerusalem. But always, each accompanied by the ruins and the desolate beauty that remains within them. Agile at times, slow at others, but always with brilliant prose, Juan Carlos Méndez Guédez gives us in this En las ruinas some vivid, latent, sincere stories. Hard to forget. (Publisher's synopsis, translated from the Spanish by Archivo Venezuela)
Subject: Ruins in literature, Memory, short stories, venezuelan literature, innocence
Type: Text
Format: Printed book
Rights: External resource
Relation:
Review by Rodrigo Blanco Calderón
Juan Carlos Méndez Guédez wins the 2024 Tiflos Short Story Prize for *En las ruinas*
Identifier: OCLC: 1443162778 | ISBN: 9788497409384
Collection: Narrative fiction
Tags: childhood, Cities, Civil War, Emotional depth, Friendship, Grief, Innocence, Juan Carlos Méndez Guédez, memory, Ruins, short stories, Venezuela, Venezuelan narrative
Citation: Juan Carlos Méndez Guédez, En las ruinas, Castalia Ediciones, 2024, OCLC: 1443162778 | ISBN: 9788497409384, accessed September 22, 2026, https://archivovenezuela.com/en/items/show/1074