Sacrifices
Book Details
Format
Paperback / Softback
ISBN-10
1838415947
ISBN-13
9781838415945
Publisher
Seven Stories Press UK
Imprint
Seven Stories Press UK
Country of Manufacture
GB
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Aug 25th, 2022
Print length
128 Pages
Weight
180 grams
Dimensions
13.90 x 20.80 x 1.10 cms
Product Classification:
Fiction in translation
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The protagonists of these seven stories are already defeated by their own messianism. They retrospectively recount the unjust circumstances that turned them into victims or criminals. The cast of antiheroes in Sacrifices includes a blind man, Tiresias, that seeks intimacy in a labyrinthic Mexico City; a dying pilot who finds solace reading Antoine de Saint-Exupery on a beach in Biarritz; and a taxidermist painter who predicts various Venezuelan massacres in his own Guernica. These revelatory short stories tread the line between surrealism and realism, proving that fiction is always political. Despite the international settings, Blanco Calderon''s mythical characters are the product of a Venezuelan legacy of martyrs whose sacrifices failed to lead the country to democracy.
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