La edad del búfalo
Creator: Javier Guédez Sánchez
Title: La edad del búfalo
Publisher: La kuentonáutica
Date: 2024
Language: Spanish
Description:
"How many times can the temperature of a story change? As many times as Javier Guedez wants. His tales of the sweltering Caribbean are told with the rhythm of a street party—with its scents, its flavors, and its mysteries—that, all of a sudden, leave the reader’s blood ice-cold." (Hernán Casciari, Revista Orsai, translated from Spanish by Archivo Venezuela).
"La edad del búfalo" is the story of a family constellation drawn against the backdrop of a country that relentlessly swallows reality. In these twelve stories—part testimonial, part autobiographical—no one is safe. The characters are constantly shaken by astonishing, suffocating events that push us to the edge of laughter and absurdity.
A jaguar’s severed head lying in the middle of the street, an angel dying in a bar bathroom, a woman covered in rings and tattoos who speaks with the ghosts of a cumbia singer, the delirium of a supermarket cashier, the exhumation of graves, unusual wildlife, the lonely twin syndrome—these are just some of the heroic misadventures the author gathers in this book. Through them, he speaks of the country where he was born in an unconventional tone, allowing us to enjoy his stories in a strangely satisfying way, as if they were collectible insects." (Back cover, translated from Spanish by Archivo Venezuela)
Subject: Literature, fiction, narrative, short stories, Javier Guédez Sánchez
Type: Text
Format: Printed book
Rights: External references
Relation: "Cabeza de jaguar," a short story from La edad del búfalo, published in Ficción Breve.
Interview with Javier Guédez by Félix Gómez for Bitácora de viaje, on the occasion of the publication of La edad del búfalo.
Identifier: LIT0008
Collection: Narrative fiction
Tags: Fiction, Javier Guédez Sánchez, Literature, Narrative, short stories
Citation: Javier Guédez Sánchez, La edad del búfalo, La kuentonáutica, 2024, accessed September 22, 2026, https://archivovenezuela.com/en/items/show/172