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The night
- Title
- The night / Rodrigo Blanco Calderón ; translated from Spanish by Noel Hernández González and Daniel Hahn.
- Author
- Blanco Calderón, Rodrigo, 1981-
- Publication
- New York, NY : Seven Stories Press, [2021]
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person. | Text | Use in library | JFD 22-1936 | Schwarzman Building - Main Reading Room 315 |
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- Description
- 349 pages; 21 cm
- 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)"--
- Uniform Title
- Night. English
- Alternative Title
- Night.
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- Fiction.
- Political fiction.
- Note
- Originally published in Spanish as The Night.
- Call Number
- JFD 22-1936
- ISBN
- 9781644210406
- 1644210401
- 9780995580756
- 0995580758
- LCCN
- 2021003142
- OCLC
- 1157936549
- 1157936549
- Author
- Blanco Calderón, Rodrigo, 1981- author.
- Title
- The night / Rodrigo Blanco Calderón ; translated from Spanish by Noel Hernández González and Daniel Hahn.
- Publisher
- New York, NY : Seven Stories Press, [2021]
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Added Author
- Hernández González, Noel, translator.Hahn, Daniel, translator.
- Other Form:
- Online version: Blanco Calderón, Rodrigo, 1981- Night New York, NY : Seven Stories Press, [2021] 9781644210413 (DLC) 2021003143
- Research Call Number
- JFD 22-1936