The night / Rodrigo Blanco Calderón ; translated from Spanish by Noel Hernández González and Daniel Hahn.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Blanco Calderón, Rodrigo, 1981- author.

Contributor:

Hernández González, Noel, translator.

Hahn, Daniel, translator.

Standardized Title:

Night. English

Language:

English

Spanish

Subjects (All):

Venezuela--Fiction.

Venezuela.

Genre:

Fiction.

Political fiction.

Physical Description:

349 pages ; 21 cm

Place of Publication:

New York, NY: Seven Stories Press, [2021]

Summary:

"Recurring blackouts envelop Caracas in an inescapable darkness that makes nightmares come true. Real and fictional characters, most of them are writers, exchange the role of narrator in this polyphonic novel. They recount contradictory versions of the plot, a series of femicides that began with the energy crisis. The central narrator is a psychiatrist who manipulates the accounts of his friend, an author writing a book titled The Night; and his patient, an advertising executive obsessed with understanding the world through word puzzles. The author shifts between crime fiction and metafiction, cautioning readers that the events retold are both true and manipulated. This is a political novel about the financial crisis and socio-political division in Venezuela from 2008 to 2010. The title of the book, originally also in English, is a gesture towards Chavism's failure to resist US influence. Yet, the form is unapologetically literary, a reflection on the depiction and distortion of reality through storytelling. Blanco Calderón said about the potential of language, "I am convinced that all the evil in the world begins in them: in words" (Caracas, 2010)"-- Provided by publisher.

Notes:

Originally published in Spanish as The Night.

Other Format:

Online version: Blanco Calderón, Rodrigo, 1981- Night

ISBN:

9781644210406

1644210401

9780995580756

0995580758

OCLC:

1157936549

Publisher Number:

99993504722