Venecos
Creator: Rodrigo Blanco Calderón
Title: Venecos
Publisher: Páginas de Espuma
Date: 2025
Language: Spanish
Description: "Venecos" is a derogatory way of referring to Venezuelans, who in these magnificent stories have emigrated to different cities around the world, such as Los Angeles, Paris, or Malaga, or have no means of leaving Venezuela, a country in moral and economic ruin. These Venecos make up a select gallery of tragicomic characters, captive to personal grudges, petty miseries, or foretold misfortunes, such as Hugo Chávez's right-hand man who falls into disgrace for having written an ode to pedophilia in his youth; the two friends who bet in front of the television on which film will be the best at the Oscars; the criminal who admires the actor John Cazale; the girl who loses her virginity and fears retribution from her family; the writer who meets with a jury in a Paris café to deliberate on a literary prize; or the cleaning lady who learns to read to surprise her husband. (Publisher's synopsis, translated from the Spanish by Archivo Venezuela)
Subject:
Venezuelan literature, contemporary short stories, migration, Venezuelan diaspora, identity, prejudice, discrimination, economic crisis, moral crisis, tragicomic characters, social satire, Hugo Chávez, exile, life abroad, Los Angeles, Paris, Malaga, family relationships, 21st century literature, Rodrigo Blanco Calderón, marginality, immigrants, cultural adaptation, urban narrative, literary prizes, learning, social prejudice, short fiction
Type: Text
Format: Printed book
Rights: External resource
Relation:
Publisher's page at Anagrama (Spanish)
Review by Javier Serena in El Cultural (Spanish)
Review by Héctor Torres in Letralia (Spanish)
Interview with the author in El Universal (Spanish)
Interview with the author in La Tercera (Spanish)
WorldCat bibliographic record
Identifier: OCLC: 1490382028 | ISBN: 9788483937150
Collection: Narrative fiction
Tags: 21st century literature, contemporary short stories, cultural adaptation, discrimination, economic crisis, exile, family relationships, Hugo Chávez, identity, immigrants, learning, life abroad, literary prizes, Los Angeles, Malaga, marginality, Migration, moral crisis, Paris, prejudice, Rodrigo Blanco Calderón, short fiction, social prejudice, social satire, tragicomic characters, urban narrative, Venezuelan diaspora, Venezuelan literature
Citation: Rodrigo Blanco Calderón, Venecos, Páginas de Espuma, 2025, OCLC: 1490382028 | ISBN: 9788483937150, accessed September 22, 2026, https://archivovenezuela.com/en/items/show/1106