Algo habla con mi voz
Creator: Vaitiere Rojas Manrique
Title: Algo habla con mi voz
Publisher: Universidad Central de Colombia
Date: 2020
Language: Spanish
French edition: Tu parles comme la nuit, Editions Payot & Rivages, 2021.
Description:
Winner of the Universidad Central Novel Contest in 2019
*"How does a Venezuelan migrant survive in Bogotá while besieged by depression and the voice of madness, trapped in a fractured marriage, with a child who dries her tears, and whose only source of kinship is literature? She writes. She writes letters to her friend F., pouring into them her yearning to inhabit words, her daydreaming reveries, her poems—'trash can filler' and 'her own nonsense,' as she calls her writings. In these letters, she also recounts what it means to leave a country with no place for her and arrive in another where her nationality erases her individuality.
The novel that won the Universidad Central Novel Contest in 2019 sheds light on the vortex of a transnational social crisis and a public health issue, told through the deeply intimate lens of a first-person narrative that flows boldly and authentically between epistolary prose and free verse, between past and present—in the end, between consciousness and the abyss of what takes hold of her voice."*
(Source, translated from Spanish by Archivo Venezuela)
*"In 2018, like more than a million of her compatriots, Vaitiere Rojas was forced to flee a Venezuela devastated by economic crisis. Exiled in Colombia, in the outskirts of Bogotá, she finds herself in the skin of the destitute and rejected foreigner. Identifying with K. from The Castle, in a world where nothing is reassuring or comprehensible, she manages to transcend her experience through letters addressed to Kafka.
Through small yet powerful strokes, in vivid and particularly evocative scenes, she captures sur le vif the fate of migrants—the struggle for survival, the overwhelming lack of everything, xenophobia. Tu parles comme la nuit, a true gem of literature, offers us a voice that is both sincere and profoundly moving." (Source, translated from French by Archivo Venezuela).
Subject: Literature, Venezuela, Colombia, fiction, novel, migration, Franz Kafka, Vaitiere Rojas
Type: Text
Format: Printed book, ebook
Rights: External reference
Relation: Excerpt from Algo habla con mi voz.
Article on the Universidad Central Novel Contest.
Interview with Vaitiere Rojas in El Tiempo on Algo habla con mi voz.
Interview with Vaitiere Rojas and Delphine Valentin (editor) on the publication of the French edition of Algo habla con mi voz (Tu parles comme la nuit).
Identifier: LIT0018
Collection: Narrative fiction
Tags: Colombia, Fiction, Franz Kafka, Literature, Migration, Novel, Vaitiere Rojas, Venezuela
Citation: Vaitiere Rojas Manrique, Algo habla con mi voz, Universidad Central de Colombia, 2020, accessed September 22, 2026, https://archivovenezuela.com/en/items/show/94