Britto García, Luis
Entry updated 12 September 2022. Tagged: Author.
(1940- ) Venezuelan author, playwright and essayist. His fiction has been honoured twice with the Casa de Las Américas prize, for his works Rajatabla ["Strictly"] (coll 1970) and Abrapalabra [wordplay with abracadabra, can be literally translated as "Open Word"] (1980). In 2002 he was the winner of Venezuela's national prize for literature, given as a lifetime achievement award. In 2005 he received the Ezequiel Martínez Estrada "Casa de Las Américas" honorary award. Britto García is best known for his fiction. Rajatabla ["Strictly"] (coll 1970) is a collection of short stories which are characterized by Humour and irony, and refer to Politics repression and violence. Abrapalabra (1979) is a novel which explores the cultural and political development of Venezuela in the twentieth century. La orgía imaginaria ["Imaginary Orgy"] (1984) is a collection of microstories (see Flash Fiction) with elements of Fantasy, surrealism and sf. [SS]
Luis Britto García
born Caracas, Venezuela: 9 October 1940
works (selected)
- Los fugitivos y otros cuentos ["The Fugitives and Other Stories"] (Caracas, Venezuela: Editorial Pensamiento Vivo, 1964) [coll: pb/]
- Vela de armas ["Weapons Sail"] (Montevideo, Uruguay: Arca Editorial, 1970) [pb/]
- Rajatabla ["Strictly"] (La Habana, Cuba: Editorial Casa de las Américas, 1970) [coll: pb/]
- Abrapalabra [wordplay with abracadabra, can be literally translated as "Open Word"] (La Habana, Cuba: Editorial Casa de las Américas, 1980) [pb/]
- La orgía imaginaria ["Imaginary Orgy"] (Caracas, Venezuela: Monte Ávila Editores, 1984) [coll: pb/]
- Me río del mundo ["I Laugh at the World"] (Caracas, Venezuela: Publicaciones Seleven, 1984) [pb/]
- Rajapalabra [wordplay with Rajatabla and Abrapalabra above] (Mexico DF, Mexico: Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, 1994) [coll: pb/]
- Pirata ["Pirate"] (Caracas, Venezuela: Editorial Santillana, 1998) [pb/]
- Golpe de gracia ["Quietus"] (Merida, Venezuela: Ediciones El Otro El Mismo, 2001) [coll: pb/]
- Andanada ["Burst"] (Barcelona, Spain: Editorial Thule, 2005) [coll: pb/]
- Pare de sufrir ["Stop Suffering"] (Caracas, Venezuela: Biblioteca Últimas Noticias, 2006) [coll: pb/]
- Arca ["Ark"] (Caracas, Venezuela: Seis Barral, 2007) [coll: pb/]
nonfiction
- La máscara del poder: del Gendarme Necesario al Demócrata Necesario ["Mask of Might: From Necessary Policeman to Necessary Democrat"] (Caracas, Venezuela: Alfadil Ediciones, 1988) [nonfiction: pb/]
- El poder sin la máscara: de la Concertación Populista a la Explosión Social ["Might without Mask: From Populist Consensus to Social Explosion"] (Caracas, Venezuela: Alfadil Ediciones, 1990) [nonfiction: pb/]
- El imperio contracultural: del rock a la posmodernidad ["The Countercultural Empire: From Rock to Postmodernism"] (Caracas, Venezuela: Editorial Nueva Sociedad, 1991) [nonfiction: pb/]
- Demonios del mar: corsarios y piratas en Venezuela 1528-1727 ["Sea Demons: Privateers and Pirates in Venezuela 1528-1727"] (Caracas, Venezuela: Fundación V Centenario de Venezuela, 1999) [nonfiction: pb/]
- Elogio del panfleto y de los géneros malditos ["Praise The Pamphlet and Cursed Genres"] (Merida, Venezuela: Editorial Libro de Arena, 2000) [nonfiction: pb/]
- País de petróleo, pueblo de oro ["Oil Country, Gold People"] (Caracas, Venezuela: Fundarte, 2003) [nonfiction: pb/]
- Socialismo del tercer milenio ["Socialism of the Third Millenium"] (Caracas, Venezuela: Monte Ávila Editores Latinoamericana, 2008) [nonfiction: pb/]
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