Los terneros

Creator: Rodrigo Blanco Calderón

Title: Los terneros

Publisher: Editorial Páginas de Espuma

Date: 2018

Language: Spanish

Description: Taxidermist painters shipwrecked in a hostile society, blind men who know the urban labyrinths, naked motorcyclists riding through city avenues, foreigners learning a language through confession, dying pilots finding rest in the writings of Saint-Exupéry, or lives abducted by Cervantes and Petrarch. Some dwell amid Venezuelan turmoil, others amid the looming threat of terrorism in France or in the symbolic Mexico echoing with the gunfire of revolution. Impeccable and masterful in his storytelling, Rodrigo Blanco Calderón constructs an altarpiece of nocturnal characters who become both victims and executioners in a ritual of sacrifice—an expiation that is life itself, at any moment, in any place, where we are all “calves.”

Subject: Fiction, short stories, literature, Venezuela

Type: Text

Format: Book

Rights: External reference

Relation: Presentation of Los terneros

Identifier: LIT0001

Collection: Narrative fiction

Tags: Fiction, Literature, Rodrigo Blanco Calderón, short stories, Venezuela

Citation: Rodrigo Blanco Calderón, Los terneros, Editorial Páginas de Espuma, 2018, accessed September 22, 2026, https://archivovenezuela.com/en/items/show/747