Abstract

VASQUEZ RODRIGUEZ, Gilberto Daniel. A novel about devastation: politics and narrative in La hija de la española. Connotas. Rev. crit. teór. lit. [online]. 2023, n.26, pp.284-331.  Epub June 26, 2023. ISSN 2448-6019.  https://doi.org/10.36798/critlit.v0i26.412.

The main objective of this article is to analyze the complex dialogue established between the novel La hija de la española (2019), by Karina Sainz Borgo, and some political, social, historical and literary contexts present in the convulsive contemporary Venezuelan reality. It is, therefore, a path that studies the realistic approach of the novel, whose events, reformulated by fiction, promote an evaluation of ideas, beliefs, assertions and positions, which articulate a problematic morality around what the narrator conceives as political, social and, therefore, citizen devastation in a predatory country. The particular vision of this debacle and the sense of a bitter salvation stimulate in the narrator a story full of rawness and resentment. The novel insists, from a lyrical conformation in a radically pessimistic tone and through intermittent, direct and indirect links with reality, on the rise of Chavismo and the Bolivarian Revolution, the figures of revolutionary violence or the political and social establishment of necrophiliac religiosity, with all its signs, achievements and emblems, as the fundamental propellants of the progressive deterioration of an entire country.

Keywords : Venezuelan novel; contemporary Latin American novel; politics; chavismo; Bolivarian Revolution.

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