Penínsulas rotas
Creator: Magdalena López
Title: Penínsulas rotas
Publisher: La Moderna
Date: 2020
Language: Spanish
Description: "Grandmother Eloísa, a formidable woman and an avid participant in literary resistance circles. Grandfather Diego, a high-ranking military officer who conspires against the dictatorship while attempting to conceal his democratic past, alongside his brother Segismundo, the inventor of an electromagnetic ship that could threaten the oil industry. Uncle Salvador, a communist guerrilla who hijacked an ocean liner in a bid to liberate the Iberian Peninsula from the dictatorships of Salazar and Franco. The granddaughter and her friend Delfina, rebels without a cause, setting off in search of a place that may not even exist.
These and other characters—romantic yet crushed by the weight of history—inhabit the pages of this portrait of modern Venezuela, a stage where, from Pérez Jiménez to Hugo Chávez, the tensions of Caribbean (and global) geopolitics have steadily dissolved. Magdalena López makes her debut with this ambitious family novel, blending the epistolary genre with first-person narration to explore disputes over inheritances, secret children, and personal disillusionments. A choral mosaic, interwoven with the voices of the living and the dead, the novel carries echoes of the dictator novel and the grand tradition of Latin American fiction, as well as the polyphonic style of Faulkner. Written in the expressive, everyday Spanish of Caracas, the author experiments with a “writing of ruins” in an attempt to reconstruct the remnants of a family and a country—or of what they might have become" (La Moderna, translated from Spanish by Archivo Venezuela).
Subject: Literature, Fiction, Narrative, Novel, Epistolary, Venezuela.
Type: Text
Format: Printed book, ebook
Rights: External reference
Relation:
Identifier: LIT0038
Collection: Narrative fiction
Tags: Epistolary, Fiction, Literature, Magdalena López, Narrative, Novel, Venezuela
Citation: Magdalena López, Penínsulas rotas, La Moderna, 2020, accessed September 22, 2026, https://archivovenezuela.com/en/items/show/68