Rodrigo Blanco Calderón Orden de los libros

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.

Rodrigo Blanco se ha consolidado como una de las grandes voces de la literatura latinoamericana y su Simpatía se alza como firme candidata a ser la gran novela sobre la agonía de Venezuela y el hundimiento del chavismo.Muestra del caos y la penuria que identifican Caracas son la legión de perros que recorren sus calles, abandonados por los millones de venezolanos que huyen del país. Por eso Ulises, un tipo sin oficio ni beneficio que imparte clases en un modesto taller de cine, acepta la misión de crear una fundación dedicada a rescatar perros desamparados. Sin saberlo, Ulises va a ser arrastrado por una odisea de enredos familiares, peligros que le llevan a dudar de su entorno –donde de repente nadie es lo que parece– y de enigmas que atañen a los perros más insignes y patriotas de la historia de Venezuela.

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. This is a political novel about the financial crisis and socio-political division in Venezuela from 2008 to 2010.