Sacrifices: Stories

Creator: Rodrigo Blanco Calderón

Title: Sacrifices: Stories

Publisher: Seven Stories Press

Language: English

Description: Taxidermist painters shipwrecked in a hostile society, blind people familiar with urban labyrinths, naked motorcyclists cruising the avenues, foreigners learning a language through confession, dying pilots resting by reading Saint-Exupéry, or lives abducted by Cervantes and Petrarch. Some coexist amidst Venezuelan anxiety, others with the lurking terrorism of France, or a Mexico symbolic of the bullets of the revolution. Impeccably and masterfully in his stories, Rodrigo Blanco Calderón constructs a tableau of nocturnal characters, who become victims and executioners of a sacrifice, of the atonement that is life at any moment, in any space, in which we are all "calves." (Publisher's synopsis)

Subject: Venezuelan literature, short stories, contemporary fiction, sacrifice in literature, existential themes, urban life, taxidermy, painters, blindness, labyrinths, motorcyclists, confession, language learning, pilots, Saint-Exupéry, Cervantes, Petrarch, anxiety, terrorism, revolution, France, Mexico, victims, executioners, nocturnal characters, atonement, identity, violence, social alienation, multicultural settings, Rodrigo Blanco Calderón, 21st century literature

Type: Text

Format: Printed book

Rights: External resource

Documented by: Thomas Bunstead (translator)

Relation:

Excerpt from Sacrifices: stories at Literary Hub

Publisher's page at Seven Stories Press

Reader reviews on Goodreads

Review in Publishers Weekly

Collection: Narrative fiction

Tags: 21st century literature, anxiety, atonement, blindness, Cervantes, confession, contemporary fiction, executioners, existential themes, France, identity, labyrinths, language learning, Mexico, motorcyclists, multicultural settings, nocturnal characters, painters, Petrarch, pilots, revolution, Rodrigo Blanco Calderón, sacrifice in literature, Saint-Exupéry, short stories, social alienation, taxidermy, terrorism, Urban life, Venezuelan literature, victims, violence

Citation: Rodrigo Blanco Calderón, Sacrifices: Stories, Seven Stories Press, accessed September 22, 2026, https://archivovenezuela.com/en/items/show/1109