![]() ![]() At the same time the novel includes a “biography-homage” to a real Venezuelan author, Darío Lancini (1932-2010), a writer specialized in intertextual games. The story of these characters, with their relationships, crises, love affairs, rifts (estrangements), projects and failures, construct a bildungsroman which metamorphoses into a roman noir and ends with a murder. Four fictional characters star in the novel: a psichiatrist his friend, a patient severely affected from obsessions a half-mad writer who obtained a literary prize with an incomprehensible short story and a dynamic though tortured woman. Real and fictitious characters and multiple narrators, blur in this night creating a frenzied fresco, where space and time are permeable and changing. This dual darkness of the night is full of dangers, violence, dreams, ambitions. In the city of Caracas there are constant power blackouts. Prix Rive Gauche à Paris du Livre Étranger 2016Ī frenzied literary fresco of nowadays Venezuela's dark roots by a not-to-be-missed voice in the new Latin American literature. ![]() ![]() III Mario Vargas Llosa Biennial Novel Award 2019 ![]()
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