![]() ![]() ![]() They recount contradictory versions of the plot, a series of femicides that began at the same time as the energy crisis. Real and fictional characters, most of whom are writers, play the role of narrator in this polyphonic novel. Recurring blackouts envelop Caracas in an inescapable darkness that makes nightmares come true. ISBN 9789023466314.Vertaling van The Night door Ari Van der Wal. Yet, the form is unapologetically literary, a reflection on the depiction and distortion of reality through storytelling. RodrigoBlanco Calderón: The night, De Bezige Bij, Amsterdam 2017, 383 p. The title of the book, originally also in English, is a gesture towards the failure of Chavism - the legacy of the Socialist and often controversial former president of Venezuela, Hugo Chavez - to resist US influence. THE NIGHT is a political novel about the financial crisis and socio-political division in Venezuela from 2008 to 2010. The Night is written by Rodrigo Blanco Calderon and published by Seven Stories Press (RHP). ![]()
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