
Sacrifices
by Rodrigo Blanco Calderon
Title:
Sacrifices
Author:
Rodrigo Blanco Calderon
Format:
Paperback
Number of pages:
128 pages
Publisher:
Seven Stories Press Ltd
ISBN-13:
9781838415945
EAN:
9781838415945
Publication Date:
25/08/2022
Classifications:
Special Features
Weight (g):
300
Dimensions (mm):
139 x 208 x 11
Publication Country:
United Kingdom
Language:
English
Condition:
New
Description
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.












