Crónicas barbitúricas: el asombro y la ira

Creator: Karina Sainz Borgo

Title: Crónicas barbitúricas: el asombro y la ira

Publisher: Círculo de Tiza

Date: 2019

Language: Spanish

Description: When I arrived in Spain more than twelve years ago, I knew that if I wanted to survive, I had to write. Only through writing could I make sense of things and find the strength to steer the cayuco of my own prose. The texts in Crónicas barbitrúricas are sketches of an undoing: the dissolution of the country I left behind and the integration into the one I joined—Spain. This book is a personal pharmacopeia. It is the prescription of someone who writes to swallow the bitter pill of disillusionment. It is my arsenic and my dissatisfaction. It is the residue where my astonishment and rage have settled. (Publisher’s synopsis)

Subject: Immigrants, Spain, Identity, Writing, Venezuela, Karina Sainz Borgo

Type: Text

Format: Printed book

Rights: External resource

Relation:

Interview with the author in Valencia Plaza: “Anger is an important engine when I write” (Spanish)

Author’s reflection: “I am not Adelaida Falcón” in Zenda (Spanish)

Interview with the author in Libertad Digital (Spanish)

Review by María José Solano in Zenda (Spanish)

Reader reviews on Goodreads

Publisher's page at Círculo de Tiza

WorldCat bibliographic record

Identifier: OCLC: 1130107116 | ISBN: 9788494913198

Collection: Essay

Tags: autofiction, cultural loss, disenchantment, exile, Karina Sainz Borgo, Migration, poetic testimony, political identity, prose-poetry, writing as survival

Citation: Karina Sainz Borgo, Crónicas barbitúricas: el asombro y la ira, Círculo de Tiza, 2019, OCLC: 1130107116 | ISBN: 9788494913198, accessed September 22, 2026, https://archivovenezuela.com/en/items/show/1090