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The night rodrigo blanco calderon6/20/2023 But we should not overlook the fact that the same motif reappears in other corners of the world: in a chapter from Víctor Carreño’s Cuaderno de Manhattan (2014), the Venezuelan protagonist becomes fascinated by the presence of the “mole people” in New York. It’s important to name, in keeping with the inevitable works, Humberto Mata’s “Boquerón” (1992), Gustavo Valle’s Bajo Tierra (2009), or Carlos Sandoval’s El círculo de Lovecraft (2011). In fiction, a true family of texts emerges in which the characters explore tunnels or investigate secret societies below the surface of cities. We find immersion in darkness as an elocutionary womb in both lyrical poetry-Blanca Strepponi’s Balada de la revelación (2004) or Igor Barreto’s Carreteras nocturnas (2010)-and in the novel-Ana Teresa Torres’ Nocturama (2006) or Rodrigo Blanco Calderón’s The Night (2016). Recent Venezuelan literature has been turning to an imaginary of the somber, buried, or abysmal with unsettling consistency.
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