Santiago se va

Creator: José Urriola

Title: Santiago se va

Publisher: Libros del Fuego

Date: 2015

Language: Spanish

Description: "Santiago Iribarren is a filmmaker/scientist who one day decides to tell his life story. To do so, he asks his best friend to help him record an autobiographical documentary. On the scheduled day, his friend arrives at the filming location, but Santiago is gone—he has left. All that remains is a box containing a map with precise instructions: to interview the women he has loved most in his life. From this point on, through female voices and a mock-documentary narrative, we begin to uncover the story of a man determined to create the most impossible machines in the world—machines that might give the world a new direction, or perhaps just himself. Brimming with science fiction, philosophy, film, music, and literature, Santiago se va is the first novel in a four-book saga that reveals how we are all characters filled with light and shadow, searching for meaning in our existence" (Libros del Fuego, translated from Spanish by Archivo Venezuela).

Subject: Literature, narrative, novel, Venezuela, film, documentary, autobiography, José Urriola

Type: Text

Format: Printed book, audiobook

Rights: External reference

Relation:

Video presentation of the mock documentary about José Urriola for the launch of the book Santiago se va, published by Libros del Fuego.

Produced by: Atrio Films
Director: Juan Cristóbal De La Barra

Cast:

• Fedosy Santaella
• Mónica Hernández
• Andrea Hernández
• Laura Sáez
• José Sáez
• Deborah Rodríguez

Identifier: LIT0015

Collection: Narrative fiction

Tags: autobiography, documentary, Film, José Urriola, Literature, Narrative, Novel, Venezuela

Citation: José Urriola, Santiago se va, Libros del Fuego, 2015, accessed September 22, 2026, https://archivovenezuela.com/en/items/show/163