Tiempo de tormentas
Creator: Boris Izaguirre
Title: Tiempo de tormentas
Publisher: Editorial Planeta
Date: 2018
Language: Spanish
Description:
From a very young age, Boris knows he is different. Early on, he is diagnosed with motor skill difficulties and dyslexia, and he displays mannerisms and a way of speaking that seem effeminate. Adults whisper that his mother, Belén—a renowned dancer—and his father, a film critic, surround him with bad influences. In Caracas, people talk about her intellectual friends and the homosexual circles she works with. They also say that Boris is in love with Gerardo, the son of influential journalist Altagracia Orozco.
Yet Belén refuses to succumb to prejudice. No matter how many blows come from the outside world, she turns their home into a refuge for that difference. At first, they face it side by side; later, they remain connected by the telephone line—but always together under the haunting presence of a painting rich in history: Tiempo de tormentas.
School days, a love, an assault, silence; his first steps as a columnist and telenovela writer; his rise to fame in Spain with Crónicas marcianas; becoming a finalist for the Premio Planeta; glamour, the abyss, love, and violence once more—this deeply moving and immersive autobiographical novel sees Boris Izaguirre piece together a life that is sometimes complicated, always passionate, unfolding between two countries that, like him, were also coming of age (Planeta, translated from Spanish by Archivo Venezuela).
Subject: Autobiographical novel, self-narratives, autofiction, Venezuela, homosexuality, sexual violence, mother-child relationship, dyslexia, Boris Izaguirre
Type: Text
Format: Printed book
Rights: External reference
Relation:
- Excerpt from Tiempo de tormentas.
- Tiempo de tormentas (eBook) available on Archive.org.
- Interview with Boris Izaguirre on the release of Tiempo de tormentas (Tele7Radio7).
Identifier: LIT0028
Collection: Narrative fiction
Tags: Autobiographical novel, autofiction, Boris Izaguirre, dyslexia, Homosexuality, mother-child relationship, self-narratives, sexual violence, Venezuela
Citation: Boris Izaguirre, Tiempo de tormentas, Editorial Planeta, 2018, accessed September 22, 2026, https://archivovenezuela.com/en/items/show/80